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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flash is for ads - so I block it

[TheGratefulNet]

I dont' care about yousless tube junk. the rest of flash is entirely used for crass ads and because its jscript driven, it has security issues/concerns, too.

my 'web experience' works just fine with flashblock addon enabled.

adobe can do whatever the hell they want - won't affect me one bit.

What use will this be to anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

I fail to see the relevance. http://www.google.com/search?query=AMF+Specifications&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&gn=