Decision: Java or Actionscript

[ichimaru]

Hello there,

I have searched this forum for a while but cannot find an exact answer on the question I have.

I am new to smartfox, or flash/actionscript for that matter (I am a java programmer)

We are currently setting up a multi player game in smartfoxserver pro, and we have to decide whether to use ActionScript or Java to extend the server capabilities. Reading through the documentation and this forum does not give a clear answer. It states it is more productive to use actionscript, and java is faster, and that is basically it.

Do you guys know where I can find more thorough documentation or can answer what the decision should be based on whether to use Java or Actionscript to extends smartfox's capabilities?


Thanks is advance guys!

[shvilam]

java has better preforms and as a java programmer you will have better productive using java
in this case it is ovise choice .

[willypow]

If you're a java developer then by all means go with java. The argument that one would be more productive with actionscript extensions applies when the client developers, who must use AS in Flash, are also doing the server side.

The client doesn't know or care what language the server extensions use. You can even mix them, for that matter. And you already know that java provides more options than actionscript. Consider direct jdbc connections, for example.

[sharingan]

If i am php programmer? Use php extension? How to use php extension? Is there any tutorial or links to teach how to do it?

[willypow]

Php is not one of the supported extension languages. Actionscript is pretty similar, why not try that?

If you search the forum you'll see that there's a java implementation of php called Quercus which can run on the jetty server included with SFS. You could fool around with getting that to work, but I'd stick with the supported path - java, as, or python.