Flex Data Management Service

[Former Community Member]

I have developped a FDS application that functions well on my
development

computer, and also if I deploy it on one of our internet
servers. This

application reads data from a hsql database, and displays it
in an editable

datagrid. The database resides under the WEB-INF folder of my
application.

I'm using Apache Tomcat as the web container, serving the
contents on port

8080 for both: the development computer and the remote
server.

I can run the application, editting data, seeing the data
updates, etc. in the

following cases:

1. From different client-computers (intel, mac) if I load
the app from the

internet server. E.g. two computers accessing


http://myServer.nl:8080/myApp.mxml
will be able to see the data, edit it, and

see each ones changes almost immediately. Great!!!

2. On my own local development computer, if I load the
application in two

browser windows, as
http://localhost:8080/yApp.mxml.

I see data, can edit the data, and see the changes in both
browsers.

Great!!!



My dev.computer has local IP address: 192.168.0.4

In the following situation the application will start, but
no data will load:

3. My dev.computer has Tomcat running (in Flex-debug mode),
i.e. is the server

at 192.168.0.4:8080

If I connect from another computer on our intranet, e.g.
192.168.0.5, using


http://192.168.0.4:8080/myApp.mxml,
I can see myApp loading, but the datagrid

will not be populated! In the Tomcat console I will see the
mxml being

compiled, but no exchange in terms of command/acknowledgement
packets, etc.

So I placed a crossdomain.xml file on my dev.computer:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM

"
http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">

<cross-domain-policy>

<allow-access-from domain="*" to-ports="*"/>

</cross-domain-policy>

But this does not help me further. I don't know exactly
where to place it, but

tried many different places within the myApp project.
Besides, I am on the same

domain??



My question: how can I make this work for the local
intranet?

I am open for any suggestion.



PS:

A. I get the same situation when I try DMS examples from
Adobe blogs, e.g.

the testdrive examples from Christophe Coenraads. (great work
done by

Christophe).

B. Of course I can continue developping and testing using
the remote server.

But it is much more convenient to do it locally, and besides
I would like to

learn what I'm doing wrong ;-))

Rui Rosado

[jasowill]

There are a couple of things to check here. First, make sure
that youre configuration settings for each channel are correct. If
those all look good (i.e. have the correct IP) then make sure you
are running the debug player. Set your mm.cfg file to turn on trace
logging.



[Homedrive:\Documents and settings\user\mm.cfg]

TraceOutputFileEnable=1



Add the following mxml code to your application:



<mx:TraceTarget /> // this will turn on client side
logging which defaults to show everything



Run the application and then open the flashlog.txt file and
look for any errors related to channel connect problems or possible
sandbox violations. The flashlog.txt file will be located in the
same directory as the mm.cfg unless you have specified it to reside
somewhere else within the mm.cfg file.