Workflow for creating and deploying applications

You use the Flash authoring tool to create your application's client component, which runs in Flash Player. The Flash SWF file provides the application's user interface, and also contains ActionScript for connecting to, and managing interactions with, Flash Media Server. For more information on client-side Media ActionScript, see the Client-Side ActionScript Language Reference for Flash Media Server 2.

The server component consists, minimally, of an application folder you've created on the computer that's running Flash Media Server. This folder can optionally contain server-side ActionScript (ASC) files that enable control of shared-state information, provide the logic for mediating real-time interactions among multiple users, or communicate with external resources, if necessary.

NOTE

You can optionally include a secure.asc or secure.js file in the application folder. This file is loaded automatically before any other server-side script files and lets you implement secure system calls. For more information, see Forcing the Player Settings panel to appear.

You can write ASC files in Flash Professional, a text editor, or a JavaScript editor. For information on server-side ActionScript, see the Server-Side ActionScript Language Reference.

To deploy an application, the client and server files need to be published to their proper locations. For applications deployed over the web, client files--the Flash application (SWF file) and any required HTML wrapper code--need to be published to a directory on a web server.

NOTE

You can test SWF files by running them locally; they don't need to be served from a web server to communicate with Flash Media Server.

The server files, including any ASC files, recorded stream (FLV) files and other server-side resource files, are published to the registered application directory you've defined on the server.

For more information on registering an application directory, see Getting Started.

If you're an administrator, you'll use the management console to configure Flash Media Server, set up system security, monitor usage, start and stop the server, and add users. For more information on administration tasks for Flash Media Server, see Managing Flash Media Server.

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