Aral Balkan

SWX Beta 1.0 is now available for download.

Read more about this release in this post and on the download page.

I'm going to be presenting SWX Beta 1 at the Multi-Mania conference in Belgium in a couple of hours and I will be writing more about this important release in the coming days.

Update: Here are the release notes for the Beta 1 release:

What's new in Beta 1.0 (released 2007-5-25)

This is a major release, taking SWX from Alpha to Beta stage.

• Added Full API. This API gives you an abstract interface (you don't have to do movie clip loading by hand), callbacks and timeouts and queued calls.
• Added LoadManager and ExternalAsset classes (part of the Full API). You can use these to load any external asset in queue.
• Refactored gateway and compiler code.
• SWX gateway now performs error checking and returns errors.
• Removed error reporting code from SWX Twitter API as this is now handled by the gateway.
• API Change: The arguments property is now args to be consistent with the Full API.
• Added Full API and No API versions of most Flash samples.
• Updated the SWX start page with the latest code example from my blog.
• Added cancelAllCalls() method to the SWX class and cancelAllLoads() method to the LoadManager class. These clear out the queue of waiting SWX calls and movie loads, respectively.
• Added an additional method of allowing cross-domain data exchanges that doesn't require the main SWF to grant access to the SWX data SWF.

Comments

• [...] Don’t know what to think about Swx. It is supposed to be the json for Flash/ Flex. But I kind of like Remoting. The client side code for swx does look a lot like the code to remoting (especially in AS 3.0). The server side of swx did look easy to install, but it looked like “just” an easy way to install amfphp. It would be nice though if all kinds of sites like Twitter, Flickr, Gmail, Delicious etc create a swx service. So there will be a lot of Flash/Flex mashups. [...]

  by Web X.Y » Blog Archive » Adobe live: Round up on 2007-05-31 11:37:30

• Well done on the birth of SWX Beta1. Have a great weekend in Belguim, I'm certain your presentation will be as spellbinding and compelling as always . Bonne Chance, my friend

  by aYo on 2007-05-25 05:40:58

• Thanks, aYo! :)

  by aral on 2007-05-25 05:45:45