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Just a note… I spoke to Choudary Kothapalli over at MaintainJ, Inc. and he said they are looking into supporting ActionScript… If they do (Hint: write to them and ask them to) the round about way described below won’t be necessary.

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Well, in the course of time, I’ve found a round about way of UML Class Mapping of ActionScript 3.0 projects…

Here’s how it goes…

1. Convert your AS3 files to Java (you can use the J2AS3 app that the guys over at PhysicsDev have made and provide for free I might add…give them a round of applause please ).
2. Get a copy of Visual Paradigms Smart Development Environment (plugin for Eclipse). The “Standard Version” is the lowest price version you can buy that has the [”Reverse engineer source code or executables to class diagrams using Instant Reverse feature”] feature and it costs $299 without any maintenance contract. NOTE: If you know of a free application that will do the same thing…please chime in! and save people $300.
3. Open the folder you saved all the files in from step one and then click “Instant Reverse” from the “Modeling” drop down menu at the top menu bar. Then select Java as the language and your done.

 Viola’… you now have a visual representation of your classes in any given project. It makes it much easier to see what you need to do when making decisions and for maintenance.

I must add that I don’t think it will be long before someone builds an app specifically for this purpose and if they add AS3 code generation, we’ll be REAL happy.

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How would you like to be able to serve streaming video files from your desktop computer? Ok, I agree, probably not the safest thing… and now with hosts like inflexus offering $9.95/mo Flash Media Server hosting, why would you??

 But if you’re just that kind of developer and you just have to try it to make sure you can do it… well then you’re in luck.

First of all, you can view a decent tutorial by Dan Florio on how to set things up. The only problem with the tutorial is his explaination of the folder system (I suggest reading the readme.txt file as it (at least in my opinion) is very clear and easy to implement. I found his explaination leaving me with more questions than answers…

Also, when he shows you how to set up your application so you can have people access your streaming video from any web host, he fails to mention that you have use your public IP address (if you want anyone to be able to view it from anywhere on the net).

He shows you how to view it from over the net, but from your own network, so when you try to have others (in locations other than your own network) they will not be able to load it.

You can get your public ip by going to ipchicken.com , you would use this IP in the application you actually deploy on the web.

As far as licensing goes, you can do it, you just can’t have more than 10 concurrent connections, which for development purposes, you probably wouldn’t anyway.

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