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Chapter 1: Before you begin
Overview of Flash Media Server
Adobe® Flash® Media Server provides streaming media capabilities and a scripting engine that enable you to create
and deliver a wide range of interactive media applications. Use Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server to create tradi-
tional media delivery applications, such as video on demand, live web event broadcasts, and audio streaming. Use
Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server to deliver communication applications like video blogging, video messaging,
and multimedia chat environments. Flash Media Server is part of Adobe’s complete solution for database connec-
tivity, directory systems, presence services, and audio and video delivery to Adobe Flash Player or Adobe AIR.
About the documentation
All documents are available in LiveDocs and PDF formats. Some documents are available for installation in the Flash
help panel.
Flash Media Server includes the following documentation:
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This manual,
Adobe Flash Media Server Installation Guide
, describes system requirements, server editions, and
installation profiles, and explains how to install the server as either an origin or an edge server.
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Adobe Flash Media Server Technical Overview
describes the server architecture, including new features, the
client-server relationship, edge servers, and security features.
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Adobe Flash Media Server Configuration and Administration Guide
describes how to deploy, configure, and tune
the server, how to use the Administration Console to monitor the server, and how to use the Administration appli-
cation programming interface (API) to monitor and configure the server.
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Adobe Flash Media Server Developer Guide
explains how to set up your development environment. It also
describes how to use the Flash authoring environment, the Adobe Flex authoring environment, and the Flash Media
Server API to create media applications.
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Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server Plug-in Developer Guide
documents how to create Access, Authorization,
and File plug-ins in C++ that extend the capabilities of the server.
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ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference
documents ActionScript™ 3.0, which you can use to create
client-side functionality. This document is part of the Flash or Flex documentation set, depending on which
authoring tool you use.
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Adobe Flash Media Server ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference
documents the version 2.0 ActionScript you can
use to create client-side functionality. This document contains additional APIs and information about calling Flash
Media Server resources from a Flash Player client. You may also need to use the Flash ActionScript documentation
to create Flash Media Server client applications.
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Server-Side ActionScript Language Reference for Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server
documents the Server-Side
ActionScript you can use to write scripts on the server. Server-Side ActionScript is JavaScript 1.5 with additional
classes that work only in the Flash Media Server host environment.
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Adobe Flash Media Server
Administration API Reference
documents the ActionScript API you can use to make
your own administration and monitoring tools.
