Flash Media Server 2 is the newest version of Flash Communication Server. Flash Media Server 2 offers traditional streaming media capabilities and a flexible development environment for creating and delivering innovative, interactive media applications. You can use Flash Media Server to create and deliver the following media experiences:
To learn more about and to download the Flash Media Server, go to the Adobe website. at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/.
The FMS event gateway lets you modify data through the ColdFusion application or the Flash client, and reflect the change in the Flash Media Server shared object. The FMS event gateway listens to the shared object, and notifies ColdFusion when other clients modify shared objects. The FMS event gateway also lets ColdFusion modify shared objects.
ColdFusion provides the following tools for developing FMS applications:
FCSj.jar: The JAR file that implements the Java API to communicate with Flash Media Server.
FMSGateway: The class for the FMS event gateway type. You implement your FMS application by creating a ColdFusion application that uses an instance of the FMSGateway class to communicate with one or more Flash Media Server.
The FMS event gateway listens to Flash Media Server shared objects, and notifies ColdFusion when a shared object is modified by a Flash client. The following steps occur when a Flash client modifies a Flash Media Server shared object:
The following image shows the interaction between Flash Media Server, the FMS event gateway, and the ColdFusion application:
The FMS event gateway lets ColdFusion applications modify Flash Media Server shared objects. The following steps occur when data that affects a shared object is modified in a ColdFusion application:
The following image shows the interaction between the ColdFusion application and Flash Media Server through the FMS event gateway: