Flash Remoting white papper - via John Dowdell
A great white paper on Flash Remoting by the Aberdeen Group. One thing got me about this paper. It starts as follows.
Since the mid-1990s a number of distributed object architectures have appeared that all aim to provide platform-neutral client-server interactions across the Inter-net. A short list might include the following:
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J2EE
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Web server pages (e.g., ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, PHP)
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Microsoft .Net
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XML Web services
Each of these approaches has its virtues and liabilities, and all continue to enjoy widespread adoption. One thing that none of the frameworks listed can address, however, is the need to implement rich, responsive Internet applications using standard Web browsers or resource-constrained devices as clients.
So far so good, it then states the following.
Java comes closest, with its platform-neutral AWT and Swing GUI classes, its applet model for browser deployment, and a special micro-edition, J2ME, for small devices. Java is certainly one to watch, but applets have a checkered past as client software, J2ME is immature and uncertain of widespread adoption, and Java as a programming language is overly complex for most Web applications.
If we are talking applications running in the browser then ASP.NET can also do this, with Mono you can even run ASP.NET from a cross platform web server if you so wish.
What Web developers need is a rich-client authoring tool with scriptable access to the gamut of remote components and services. Microsoft’s .Net aims to approxi-mate these features on the Windows platform. ASP.NET supports scripting in ei-ther VBScript or JScript,
Oh my goodness....who writes this *!$%...for the record. ASP.NET can be supported by ANY....let me say that agan....ANY.... .NET language (it was 15 langauges at the last count). Oh and VBscript is not supported by .NET its called VB.NET, you should try it !!
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