Don't worry about the MX 2004 Classes

There are very few books that cover Flash Remoting, fortunately O'Reilly's Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide is on hand to do the job. This is the definitive guide, it covers the concepts and techniques neccesary to connect Flash to a remote server and then do something usefull.

Flash MX 2004 was released after this book, as a result I hesitated in getting a book that didn't cover the "latest". I was wrong. The Flash MX 2004 Remoting Classes have not affected what this book has to offer in any way.

Remoting is not about connecting to the server, that's the easy part. Remoting is about doing something usefull once you have connected. Flash Remoting the Definitve Guide offers plenty of practical information as well as theory. My favorite is the exhaustive coverage of the RecordSet class. The section on best practices is also excellent.

I used to think a good software book was the newest. Now I am of the opinion that even in the constantly changing field of software, some books do stand the test of time.

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