This book is intended to show you how to design and build applications that use Macromedia's Flash Communication Server MX. Together, Flash and the Flash Communication Server (FlashCom) can be used to create a dizzying array of applications including virtual classrooms, real-time multiplayer games , media-on-demand services, instant messaging applications, interactive live event broadcasts, video conferencing systems, and more. Macromedia designed FlashCom to simplify developing these types of communication applications . This book covers everything you need to know to program for FlashCom, whether creating simple standalone applications or more complex applications that work with web application servers, databases, and directory servers. |