Macromedia flash media server 2-developing media applications Manual Do Utilizador
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Contents
About This Manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Intended audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About the Flash Media Server documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Intended audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About the Flash Media Server documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 1: Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Installation and system requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Setting up the hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Creating a development environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Preview of Development Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Deploying applications and application instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installation and system requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Setting up the hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Creating a development environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Preview of Development Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Deploying applications and application instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Storing server-side and client-side files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Storing your application’s server-side script files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
About application instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Storing your application’s server-side script files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
About application instances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
File types used by Flash Media Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting to the server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting to the server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Starting the service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Opening a connection to the server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Opening a connection to the server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 2: Flash Media Server Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Understanding the Flash Media Server architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
About streams and shared objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
About connecting to external data sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Workflow for creating and deploying applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Understanding application flow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Understanding the Flash Media Server architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
About streams and shared objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
About connecting to external data sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Workflow for creating and deploying applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Understanding application flow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29