<h1>Serving Macromedia Flash Clients from JBoss.net</h1>

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Macromedia decided that they would have some close-to-but-not-quite-that-close-to-standard 
SOAP support in their Flash5 plugin (maybe in order to sell their dedicated app-servers 
at the backend?). There came Frederik and shook Axis so long as to talk to these 
special, browser-based clients. </p>

<p>For that purpose, you would have to uncomment the 
dedicated FlashAxisServiceServlet line and install a dedicated FlashNamespaceHandler in the http response flow 
of <code>jboss-net.sar/axis-config.xml</code>. This is because Flash does not like the 
SOAP-ENV namespace annotations and these are removed by that handler.</p>

<p>This also means that you can currently configure jboss.net to 
either talk default SOAP or Flash-SOAP. We are working on a solution that allows 
both types of accesses through different URL-contexts but at the same service providers. </p>

<p>You will find a sample flash application under  <a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jboss/contrib/jboss.net/samples">samples</a>
(warning, for using the precompiled flash code, you have to switch the web application address from "jboss-net" into 
"axis" in <code>jboss-net.sar/jboss-net.war/web.xml</code>).</p> 

<p>"Dr. Schorsch" (<a ref="mailto:christoph.Jung@jboss.org">christoph.jung@jboss.org</a>) - 2001/09/29, Last update on 2003/10/15</p>

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