Adobe Air Deployment Questions

Question

I'm working on a commercial application.  This application gets sold to customers, then deployed by various customers on whatever server they would like.  It's a java backend flex front end.  That said, for the web-app, since the swf file is housed in an application server within the same context/webroot as the server-side code, I can use relative url's.
For example, I can reference everything through /application/servlet/fun versus a full url http://10.0.0.0:808/application/servlet/fun.
This is a huge advantage for a web app because I can sell my product and they can deploy it wherever they want without me having to recompile or anything like that to account for new URLs.
Is there a way to do something similar with Adobe Air?  I would like the use the Air environment for my next iteration of the app if possible because it gives added screen space (cuts out a lot of the browser stuff).
Currently, I put all my url's in .properties files.  So, I would have a property like this:
MAIN_SERVLET=/application/servlet/fun (for example)
I could still have a concept like this, but how does a desktop app know the relative url path to the application server?  Thus, I don't think you can use relative urls.
Please guide me in the right direction.  I've been googling this all morning trying to understand the deployment process but I've found the documentation to be lacking.
Thanks!
Dan

Answer 1

This seems like a totally reasonable thing to do and seems like the path I will take.
Hi – I’m confused as to how this works.
I’ve followed this tutorial http://www.davidtucker.net/2008/01/10/air-tip-5-passing-arguments-to-an-application-on-ins tall/comment-page-1/#comment-3720
yet the BrowserInvokeEvent does not seem to be invoked.  This is the application compiled into the .air app.  On the preInitialize event, I do the following code:
private function initResources():void{
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(BrowserInvokeEvent.BROWSER_INVOKE, onInvokeEvent);
Swiz.loadBeans( [Beans] );
As you can see, I subscribe to the event and prepare my swiz framework beans.  That’s all.
Having said that, the listener is never called. I have the following code in place to debug and see what data I’d be receiving from the flashvars.
private function onInvokeEvent(invocation:BrowserInvokeEvent):void {
Alert.show(”BrowserInvokeEvent handler”);
var arguments:Array = invocation.arguments;
for each ( var object in arguments ){
Alert.show(”argument is ” + object + ” or ” + object.data );
Am I missing a step such as recompiling the Badge.swf with the new contents of AIRBadge.as ?
Thanks in advance, I’m very stumped by this.  Any guidance will be appreciated.
Dan