I wrote a small application in Haxe earlier this year. The task was to contact a Flash server (FMS) and sync the RSOs. This needed to run as a cron job, so with

I wrote a small application in Haxe earlier this year. The task was to contact a Flash server (FMS) and sync the RSOs. This needed to run as a cron job, so without a browser or a Desktop. That meant Adobe's tools in this regard were not useful at all. I was able to get a small program working with Haxe, however I figured out that you still need Adobe's runtimes, so it didn't solve our problems. I ended up using Smaxe ( http://smaxe.com/ http://smaxe.com/ ), which is a commercial (non OSS) library that allows you to work with all sorts of Flash technology from Java. I found the whole Haxe system to be intriguing. The Neko VM appears to be quite sophisticated. The idea of writing PHP in another language is certainly appealing, as is developing Flash and ActionScript outside of Adobe's IDE.