Adobe Opens Up AMF Spec

neutrino38 writes "Adobe has released the specification of the AMF format, the format used by Flash Remoting — the equivalent of AJAX for the Flash world. The article doesn't mention the AMFPHP project and the fact that some German and Canadian guys had reverse-engineered the format a long time ago. Adobe's action eases a long-standing legal uncertainty that slowed the uptake of AMFPHP for commercial projects. Next, we note that Adobe has not released its RTMP protocol used to contact a Flash Media server. This latter protocol is more interesting as it provides sessionful operation; media streaming; RPC both client-side and server-side using the AMF format; and shared objects among several sessions and server-side events. Fortunately, RTMP has been partially reverse-engineered by the red5 project. I suggest that the W3C should take a look at the whole Flash ecosystem as they think about upgrading the HTTP protocol."

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Designt HTTP around FLASH? WTF?

[brunes69]

I suggest that the W3C should take a look at the whole Flash ecosystem as they think about upgrading the HTTP protocol.

This statement at the closure of the article is so stupid I don't even know on which angle to attack it first.

As a side note, can we PLEASE gt rid of this horrible trend of submitters adding their own "personal view" on postings? Frankly I don't give a crap. It's bad enough when the editors do it.

Flash client is still closed

[mi]

I suggest that the W3C should take a look at the whole Flash ecosystem as they think about upgrading the HTTP protocol.

Frankly, I can't believe this. Slashdot, which gave Sun so much crap for making Java source code available under a wrong kind of license, is front page-advocating wider adoption of software, for which no source code is available at all ...

Re:Flash client is still closed

[pembo13]

I was pretty sure it was just the submitter, and not the Slashdot consensus.