Now that Adobe has opened up the AMF 3 spec, is there any chance AMF could find its way into NetKernel V4? It would be fantastic for Flex/AIR developers to be able to code ECMAScript on both the client and server side. Could open up Netkernel awareness to new growing group of developers

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/amf/amf3_spec_121207.pdf

Chris

Chris,

Thank you for the link to this specification. We'll take a look at it and consider it for NetKernel 4.

Is this a critical technology for your project?

Kind regards,

Randy

Hi Randy,

Yes it is. We are building a Flex app and while there are many ways we could connect to NetKernel we would prefer a compressed binary format thus AMF3.

I have been looking at NetKernel since 2005, but have never picked it up. However, I keep coming back to it and am very interested in what V4 will look like. I am hoping it will be a bit more accessible.

If you are interested, here are several open source AMF implementations.

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/BlazeDS
http://www.graniteds.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=229378
http://www.spicefactory.org/cinnamon/
http://osflash.org/red5

While not related to AMF - Merapi is another interesting project that connects Adobe AIR/Flex and Java for desktop apps. I think an AIR/Merapi/Netkernel desktop app could be very interesting.

http://merapiproject.net/index.php

Chris