Java, unlike ActionScript 1.0, is a typed language. The Flash gateway on the server takes care of the datatype conversions back and forth between the Flash client and the Java server. Table A-3 shows the conversion from Flash ActionScript to Java. Refer also to the ASTranslator library, as discussed in Chapter 7. Chapter 7 also discusses intimate details of datatype conversion from ActionScript to Java and vice versa. Table A-3. Flash-to-Java datatype conversion
Table A-4 shows the conversion from Java to Flash ActionScript. Table A-4. Java-to-Flash datatype conversion
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