Hi all,
we're in the process of releasing the amfserver, a new Drupal 7 services module that integrates with actionscript based clients.
This means it's usable for flex, flash and air applications.
It's amf handling capabilities rely on the zend amf engine from the zend framework.
At the moment of writing it is complete, tested and features all you can wish for:
- session authentication, even for cookie-disabled clients like air apps, the standalone flash player and the flash and flex authoring tool: essential for developers that don't want to test everything in the browser. This means you can log in and work on the drupal cms with the permissions of the user you are logged in as.
- integrates with the updated DrupalProxy class, the de-facto standard actionscript library for working with Drupal that now handles both D6 (with amfphp) and D7 (with amfserver) even though the underlying protocols have changed. No worries, this is fully abstracted away from the programmer. The opensource library by dpdk.nl is included in the module.
- it has been extensively tested and has a simple test suite with demo code that you can use to test your setup and the actionscript llibrary/classes included in the module.
- good documentation and easy setup.
- uses the normal way of flash remoting / amf traffic and it's a lot simpler than the earlier implementation of D6, so it's easy to write your own libraries, although I'd advise you to use the included library.
new developments will follow when there are new capabilities from the services module (like oauth)
it can be found here: http://drupal.org/sandbox/rolfvreijdenberger/1122068
thanks for listening