Actionscript 3 Port

Hi, i noticed one person has already brought the topic of an Actionscript port up but i thought i would further it.

In the latest version of the flash player (9) and the latest version of actionscript (3) you have the ability to use data ports. I have not had time to play around with them yet but just to make sure i am not wasting my time would it be possible to port the client API to actionscript 3? As far as i understand it if you have a persistant connection over a data port then that is all that is required to communicate between a client program & server , then all that is needed is a client API in that language. If i am right i would be happy to spend some time working on an actionscript port of the code.

What is a “dataport”?

If its a generic socket then yes porting would be quite possible.

[i]The Socket class enables ActionScript code to make socket connections and read/write raw binary data.

It is similar to XMLSocket, but does not dictate the format of the received/transmitted data.
Socket is useful for interoperating with servers that use binary protocols.[/i]

it does seems possible. i guess :smiley:

in fact, i’m also looking into it too.

Great, maybe we should get in touch off list so we can collaborate ;D my address is james_tann at hotmail dot com.

sure. i will email u. :wink:

When you guys get organiuzed email me at jeffrey.kesselman@sun.com and Ill bring up with my managemernt the idea of getting you code access. (Im already inted`nding on getting the C++ code released as aprt of the extension SDk but I assume you guys would rather have Java source? )

Yeah, the Java source would be much more usefull.