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TheBimmer
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June 19, 2006
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FMS to WS... OK, but WS to FMS?

  • June 19, 2006
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Hello again,

here is the situation, i have a web service which will be invoked by an external application. the call will be associated with a two string parameters.

Now, when the web method is invoked, i want to connect to a specific instance on FMS (using param 1), and send (param 2) to all connected users of that instance.

i had this idea of having a virtual client working on the same machine that holds the Web Service, and let it connect to FMS. but this won't work as there is no connection between the swf and the service, the same problem occurs, web service cant invoke a function in the swf.

i thought about saving the parameters on files, and reading them from flash, but this is stupid!

any ideas?
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    Anonymous
    June 20, 2006
    My first thought would be to have the FMS application connect to the service and listen for messages.

    With a multi-instance application it might make sense to buid a separate app to handle the connection to the service, and let that app use the FMS admin service to pass your webservice results to the appropriate FMS app instance.
    TheBimmerAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    June 20, 2006
    This is logical, but when you reach implementation, then we will have some problems.

    The problem here is that I will have to use synchronous calls to a web method from the FMS, or from an application that resides at the FMS side. Now, the best shoot I have using this methodology is saving parameters into separate files, and let the FMS listener get the content of the files each time it seeks messages, and then delete them such as the email methodology. (Any recommended enhancements to this workflow?)

    This can be done, but I really believe that there are better techniques to be used! Don't you think? (Saving into separate files idea is implemented to avoid any File system error which may occur).

    For example, can I communicate with FMS from other environments rather than Flash? What is the connection string needed, and what is the format? Perhaps I can post an event to the FMS to do me the work; this will save a lot of time, and will make the process more reliable.

    I read about IRC, and that it could be connected to from any application, but it needs several parameters, and that’s it!

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