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

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