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Screencast with Toaster Lite tour
Today I recorded a screencast of a Toaster Lite tour; it quickly demonstrates how the application works and how to use it.
Toaster Lite – HTTP/AMF monitoring tool
My little pet project called Toaster Lite has finally reached the point at which I can share it with the world. In its current state it is just a simple HTTP/AMF monitoring tool that lets you introspect your client-server traffic when doing your Flash/Flex development.
You may wonder why I built it. Well first of all I thought that it would be a cool example of what you can do with the ServerSocket API that came with AIR 2. Secondly I wanted to get better understanding of AMF (Action Message Format) structure. And, last and not least I have further plans for it and what I would like to achieve at some stage is functionality similar to soapUI but for AMF. (BTW: did you know that soapUI has some basic support for AMF but obviously not enough for me 
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So what I’m planning for the next release is the ability to create test suites and test cases based on monitored requests and being able to replay these accordingly. At some point I would like to be able to perform load/stress testing of AMF services with it. I know this is something that would require threading support but maybe the Flash Player team will solve this somehow. If not, I may endup using Java to do this part of the job and integrate it with the UI using Flerry.
When building Toaster I managed to extract part of it into a separate as3 library called amf-message-deserializer, which can deserialize AMF requests received through the ServerSocket. The library project is available here in GitHub. I want to credit my fellow evangelist James Ward for his JSAMF project, which was a great help and a starting point. Other good resources to really understand AMF0 and AMF3 are their open specs available through this site.
To install Toaster Lite just use the badge below:
UPDATED 2011.01.13 – recorded a screencast with Toaster Lite tour:
