If you can provide me a running example showing this problem I can take a look (my email adress is here:http://cornelcreanga.com/about/)

Just come across your blog and its very useful but how would you go about serliasing a Java Collection e.g. ArrayList – when I pass the collection into the write object I get an error – The class flex.messaging.io.ArrayCollection does not implement flash.utils.IExternalizable but is aliased to an externalizable class.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

No, the class HTTPServiceExt cannot compensate for the the Flash Player restrictions (note that I wrote Flash Player and not HttpService). So in order to support fully REST you need to use proxy=”true” and to configure a destination in BlazeDS/LCDS/Granite etc (so the call will be made by the proxy server and not the directly by the Flash Player).

You’ve mentioned REST early in your POST but it is not obvious to me from your comments how HTTPServiceExt is compensating for HTTPService’s lack of support for REST: verb restriction (GET, POST) and full HTTP response status codes (my RESTful API returns 201, 203, .. ). Can you elaborate on this? Thanks.

Sebastian

Nice blog post.

Just FYI, I had earlier isolated the java classes required for AMF serialization alone into a small jar (http://fxstruts.googlecode.com/files/fxstruts-serialization-0.2.jar) for FxStruts. So this can be used without having all the additional jars in place.

Thanks,
Anirudh