On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:13 PM, nchubrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Rich--I'm actually interested in all kinds of configurations. > For the time being, it will be a Flex frontend in the browser > communicating with Clojure on the server. In the future, we might > want to make the Clojure part into a Java applet that runs on the > client side and does computations while Flex handles the interface; > finally, I'm also (in the long-term) interested in building standalone > apps that use Flex/AIR for the interface and Clojure/Java for the > backend. > > It all seems rather complicated, but I've found Flex to be the best > way of programming interfaces (so far). > > Concerning BlazeDS and AMF: what is the advantage of that over just > using straight HTTP with say JSON? I know RTMP has "push" capability; > any other reasons? > > -Nick. >
Push has never been much of a selling point of RTMP for me, you could use HTTP long-polling for a similar result. Bandwidth is probably the largest selling point, with readability the biggest negative in RTMP/AMF. To understand what I mean about bandwidth, you could checkout: http://www.jamesward.com/census/ -Rich -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
