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Adobe AIR in Action: Monitoring Sockets

Kathryn Rotondo
July 7, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)

The internet is a great place, but it has two drawbacks. You can’t access it everywhere, and sometimes sites and services go down. Modern web-enabled applications need to expect lapses in network connectivity. So it is not a surprise that the ability to gracefully handle sometimes-connectedness is one of the most heralded features of AIR.

I started exploring AIR’s network detection classes while co-writing Adobe AIR in Action, and was reminded that a lot of neat communication can happen over sockets.

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