If WDA will be able to call a Flash island, and Flash can call javascript

Question

In this thread here:
How would/should you invoke a javascriptable applet from WDA or WDJ?
Thomas said that an upcoming release of WDA will let WDA call Flash "islands".
Since this link:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/external_interface.html
says that Flash can invoke javascript,  won't it be possible for WDA to call an applet indirectly by calling Flash and letting Flash call the applet ?
djh

Answer 1

Anton -
I asked Thomas Stout to describe exactly what he's doing with Flex and JMol, and I'm posting his response just to be sure that there is no way (other than the portal) of duplicating what he is doing using WDA.
Here's his response:
Backend (linux):
- we have a "database" of crystal structures in flat-file directories (for example,
weekly rsync's from the PDB)
- we parse those with perl scripts into an XML table with tagged data that we
feel is relevant
Flex:
- the Flex app is constructed to load that XML file and display the data in a
table.  We exported that code from Flex into an HTML table, which provided
the basic page with a Flash movie of the Flex app embedded (See the attached
screenshot from a development version of our web page: it's the horizontal
rectangle at the top of the page).
webpage:
- we then built of the Jmol functionality into the lower half of this web page.  The
table entries at the top are sortable on any column and filterable via the text
box.  Once a line in the table is selected, the "Load" button passes the
accompanying structure to the Jmol applet and all of the Jmol "tools" become
active in the lower half of the page.   There is no communication in the reverse
direction (can't think of why you would want to!).
- BTW, the web page does not use "frames" -- I'm personally opposed to them --
but it is all constructed within a table.  The Flash movie is in a table cell that
spans two columns, the Jmol app is down a row and in the left hand (wider) cell,
while the selectable links on the right are all in the right-hand cell.  The page is
an amusing gmisch of HTML, javascript and JmolScript all fighting it out
together.....    :)