AIR/Flex .NET remoting without webserver

Question

I have an AIR application that connects to a local .NET backend through a socket. On the backend side (written in C#), the TcpListener class is used to handle incoming messages and send responses back to the client. Currently we use XML to format the requests, but this requires quite some manual work and extra code to (de)serialize the messages.

Using RemoteObject, we would not need to do any of that (de)serialization ourselves and would be able to execute remote calls in which the objects we send would be automatically mapped. We can't use this though since we are not running a webserver and can hence not set up a remoting gateway.

Does anyone have any advice on how we could do this? Is there anything available in FluorineFX or WebORB to achieve this, or would this require us to create a custom handler?

Answer 1

I think you could easily use the FluorineFX sources to accomplish what you want. FluorineFX also installs a windows service for remote messaging. The projects can be downloaded from source control. I know there's a Windows Service project which you could look at. It also uses sockets (I think) to communicate with the web server.

I guess you could start by using the serializers/deserializers from FluorineFX to parse amf to objects and objects to amf...

http://old.nabble.com/Documentation-on-how-to-use-FluorineFx-as-Windows-Service--td15849073.html