Category Archives: FMS

Basic SharedObject example in Flex, Red5 & Flash Media Server

Posted on December 4, 2008 by robsilverton

Prerequisites: • Intermediate AS3 knowledge • Flex 3 • Flash Media Server and/or Red5 + Java EE Resources: • View Flex source • View Flash Media Server Source • View Red5 source • Download Flex source • Download Flash Media … Continue reading →

Posted in FMS, Java, Red5, Tutorials | 13 Comments

Getting up and (nearly) running with the Red5 Eclipse Plug-in v0.1

Posted on October 13, 2008 by robsilverton

The Red5 plug-in for Eclipse has recently been brought to my attention by none other than Chris Allen from the Red5 team (!), so after my recent near miss with getting a simple Red5 app up and running, this got … Continue reading →

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Red5 vs FMS (and getting to grips with Java)

Posted on October 10, 2008 by robsilverton

Background I thought I’d take advantage of the Red5 session at this year’s Flash on the Beach to check out what exactly Red5 is and whether I should bite the Java bullet and switch over from Flash Media Server. Unfortunately … Continue reading →

Posted in FMS, Java, Red5 | 21 Comments

Simple Chat 3: User based chat in FMS & Flex

Posted on August 13, 2008 by robsilverton

Prerequisites: • Intermediate/Advanced AS3 knowledge• Flex 3• Flash Media Server Resources: • View source files• Download source files This tutorial builds on the previous Simple Chat tutorials and concepts from the Adobe FMS Server-Side component architecture. The main addition to … Continue reading →

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Simple Chat 2: Chat history in FMS & Flex

Posted on August 11, 2008 by robsilverton

Prerequisites: • Intermediate/Advanced AS3 knowledge• Flex 3• Flash Media Server Resources: • View source files• Download source files This tutorial builds on the previous Simple Chat tutorial and concepts from the Adobe FMS Server-Side component architecture. The notable additions to … Continue reading →

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Simple Chat 1: example in FMS & Flex

Posted on August 7, 2008 by robsilverton

Prerequisites: • Intermediate/Advanced AS3 knowledge• Flex 3• Flash Media Server Resources: • View source files• Download source files So here’s a very simple FMS chat app tutorial for Flex that I’ve ended up writing because I couldn’t find an equivalent. … Continue reading →

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The trouble with FMS and AS2/3

Posted on August 4, 2008 by robsilverton

I hit two major problems when trying to refactor the Adobe sample lobby/chat apps in Flex: 1. This article covers why you will have problems with the following code in AS2/3 (from “sample_lobby.fla” at the sample apps link above): if … Continue reading →

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My kingdom for an AS3 FMS simple chat tutorial…

Posted on August 4, 2008 by robsilverton

The next step in my learning process was to root around for some nice open source FMS AS3 tutorials online, preferably in Flex, and preferably just really simple neat code with no frills that speaks for itself. Maybe I’m just … Continue reading →

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