# Serving Macromedia Flash Clients from JBoss.net

Macromedia decided that they would have some close-to-but-not-quite-that-close-to-standard SOAP support in their Flash5 plugin (maybe in order to sell their dedicated app-servers at the backend?). There came Frederik and shook Axis so long as to talk to these special, browser-based clients.

For that purpose, you would have to uncomment the dedicated FlashAxisServiceServlet line and install a dedicated FlashNamespaceHandler in the http response flow of `jboss-net.sar/axis-config.xml`. This is because Flash does not like the SOAP-ENV namespace annotations and these are removed by that handler.

This also means that you can currently configure jboss.net to either talk default SOAP or Flash-SOAP. We are working on a solution that allows both types of accesses through different URL-contexts but at the same service providers.

You will find a sample flash application under samples (warning, for using the precompiled flash code, you have to switch the web application address from "jboss-net" into "axis" in `jboss-net.sar/jboss-net.war/web.xml`).

"Dr. Schorsch" (christoph.jung@jboss.org) - 2001/09/29, Last update on 2003/10/15

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