MULTIMEDIA BASED DYNAMIC CONTENT USING FLASH AND SERVER TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

"In the market today, having a web application that can display contents that are driven dynamically by a backend database has becomes the norm. In this project, the author will research on the various technologies and methods required to created a dynamic web application and select the most appropriate technologies based on their merits to implement a bigger scale application.

The most widely used software to implement a dynamic web application is to use Integrated Development Environment (IDE) software such as Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver offers compatibility with many widely used application servers and databases. They’re also very easy to use and required very little coding. However, without the knowledge needed to actually go into code view to edit the code manually, there is very little customisation available to manipulate these data and information.

Adobe Flash, on the other hand, offers very good interactivity and animations to web pages. They also offer compatibility to widely used application servers and databases. However, using Flash requires much more coding and understanding of how the application server’s code and database’s Structured Query Language (SQL) works. A good amount of coding knowledge has to be acquired here but with it, comes the power to customise the data in any way the author wants.

As a result, Flash MX 2004, together with Flash Remoting components, ColdFusion application server and Microsoft Access Database, was chosen by the author as the development tool to implement an Inventory Management System. "