Comments on: Flash Media Server, Flex Builder 2, and ANT

By: steve

steve — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 04:59:21 +0000

Jesse –

Nice writeup. It’s great to see this work being done with Flex2 and FMS. Just wanted to note the free FMS Developer Edition is now usable in commercial applications.

Also – the FMS Professional Edition has the concept of license profiles that let you configure your server for use as a streaming A/V server or an application server. For example, you can choose to have 150 Connections and unlimited bandwidh or up to 2500 connections with a 25Mbps cap. It’s all the same price and you can change profiles at any time. More here. Jesse – Not sure if this is in line with what you meant by a ‘shared object server’.

-steve.
FMS team
adobe systems

By: Nathan Vale

Nathan Vale — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 03:56:19 +0000

Hi Jesse, I have been having fun with FMS and Flex2 of late my self. It really is all too easy. I love your suggestion of intergrating it in with Carnigorn 2.0. Ive got a little tutorial up on my blog on a video guestbook if you are interested. http://www.interfaced.com.au/?p=6

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:41:39 +0000

To be fair, yes, Adobe has a great developer license for FDS. The problem is, if it goes commercial, you’ll need deep pockets.

Furthermore the server-side is written in Java. You cant use something lighter weight like JavaScript. I’ve read their API, but it’s not made for multi-user apps with messaging; it’s made for apps that want to distribute data; basically a wonderful integration into your data source with fallbacks to polling. Well put together, but again, wrong solution.

By: Rob Gonda

Rob Gonda — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:32:07 +0000

Just to clarify, Flex Data Services Express (FDS) is free, which for what I understand, the only restriction is single cpu servers, which should be enough for a side/fun project.

Cheers.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:14:56 +0000

Thanks for the updates Chris! I think I’ll go explode with joy now.

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