About connecting to external data sources

In addition to the communication models that streams and shared objects provide, Flash Media Server can also interact with external data sources such as web services and relational databases, or even other Flash Media Server applications. For example, you might write server-side ActionScript to connect to a web service (use the WebService class) or ColdFusion application to retrieve a list of names and phone numbers. The results of the query can then be placed into a shared object. For more information about web services, see About Flash Media Server classes.

Flash Media Server interacts with external data sources.

Macromedia Flash Remoting is a gateway that connects your media application to J2EE application servers and Microsoft Windows .NET servers. You can connect to Flash Remoting from a client-side or server-side script. Flash Remoting relies on its own ActionScript library, called NetServices, to link Macromedia Flash applications to a server-side gateway. The NetServices API is described in Using Flash Remoting, available as a PDF on the Macromedia website. For more information about using Flash Media Server with Flash Remoting, see the Macromedia Flash Media Server Developer Center.

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