Continuous Server Applications - Possible?

Question

Ok, I'm a long-time user of Flash and Actionscripting, but
totally new to SSAS.
I'm creating (or trying to) a multi-user, persistant world,
Flash-Based game.
So far, all the examples I've seen of SSAS start the script
when someone connects/requests it and closes directly after all
users are disconnected.
Is there a way to create a server app that would run and
continue running regardless of current connections, or lack
thereof?

Answer 1

Hello :)
if you don't use the Macromedia framework... all it's
possible for me :)
1 - open a new folder application : applications/test/
2 - create a new main.asc
3 - write in this file :
repeat = function ()
trace("go : " + new Date()) ;
var id /*Number*/ = setInterval( repeat , 1000 ) ;
4 - save your file
5 - lauch the FMS console
6 - open your "Server Live Log"
7 - launch you application
8 - wait and see the trace message.
9 - close your console
10 - restart you console.. the setInterval continue to
incremente your
trace :)
MM Framework encapsulate the core's object in SSAS framework.
But you
can use the core's object and create your continuous
application framework.
I have write a first alpha SSAS version of my OpenSource
framework "VEGAS" :
>
http://osflash.org/vegas
>
http://code.google.com/p/vegas/
(second server)
The SSAS version implement lot of methods and class to help
you if you
want : FrontController, Design Pattern(MVC), Event Model W3C
DOM2/3,
Gateway with client, Log tools, a new Application
implementation in
asgard.server.* package, etc... all my code use polymorphisme
with AS3
framework.
For your application you can use my vegas.util.Timer class :
http://svn1.cvsdude.com/osflash/vegas/SSAS/trunk/src/src/vegas/util/Timer.asc
To use my framework :
1 - use SVN (subversion) client like TortoiseSVN or RapidSVN
to installe
the SVN in your hard disk.
2 - copy all the SSAS/trunk/src files in your FMS application
folder.
3 - in your main.asc
// ----o include VEGAS
load("src/vegas.asc") ;
// ---- Unit Test
// load("unittests/Application.asc") ; // units tests
// --- imports
Delegate = vegas.events.Delegate ;
Timer = vegas.util.Timer ;
var onDebug = function ( e )
trace("> " + e.getType()) ;
var timer = new Timer(1000, 4) ;
timer.addGlobalEventListener( new Delegate(this, onDebug) ) ;
trace("> " + timer) ;
timer.start() ;
EKA+ :)
> You also need to consider garbage collection. FMS will
kill application
> instances after they have been idle for a while (as in
no clients connected),
> so you need to tell FMS to not shut your app down.
>
> Look in the docs for the application.onappStop method to
see how to prevent an
> instance from being GC'd.
>