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1 Chapter 1: Before you begin Overview of Flash Media Server Adobe® Flash® Media Server provides streaming media capabilities and a scripting engine that enable you to create and deliver a wide range of interactive media applications. Use Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server to create traditional media delivery applications, such as video on demand, live web event broadcasts, and audio streaming. Use Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server to deliver communication applications like video blogging, video messaging, and multimedia chat environments. Flash Media Server is part of Adobe's complete solution for database connectivity, directory systems, presence services, and audio and video delivery to Adobe Flash Player or Adobe AIR. About the documentation All documents are available in LiveDocs and PDF formats. Some documents are available for installation in the Flash help panel. Flash Media Server includes the following documentation: • This manual, Adobe Flash Media Server Installation Guide, describes system requirements, server editions, and installation profiles, and explains how to install the server as either an origin or an edge server. • Adobe Flash Media Server Technical Overview describes the server architecture, including new features, the client-server relationship, edge servers, and security features. • Adobe Flash Media Server Configuration and Administration Guide describes how to deploy, configure, and tune the server, how to use the Administration Console to monitor the server, and how to use the Administration application programming interface (API) to monitor and configure the server. • Adobe Flash Media Server Developer Guide explains how to set up your development environment. It also describes how to use the Flash authoring environment, the Adobe Flex authoring environment, and the Flash Media Server API to create media applications. • Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server Plug-in Developer Guide documents how to create Access, Authorization, and File plug-ins in C++ that extend the capabilities of the server. • ActionScript 3.0 Language and Components Reference documents ActionScript™ 3.0, which you can use to create client-side functionality. This document is part of the Flash or Flex documentation set, depending on which authoring tool you use. • Adobe Flash Media Server ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference documents the version 2.0 ActionScript you can use to create client-side functionality. This document contains additional APIs and information about calling Flash Media Server resources from a Flash Player client. You may also need to use the Flash ActionScript documentation to create Flash Media Server client applications. • Server-Side ActionScript Language Reference for Adobe Flash Media Interactive Server documents the Server-Side ActionScript you can use to write scripts on the server. Server-Side ActionScript is JavaScript 1.5 with additional classes that work only in the Flash Media Server host environment. • Adobe Flash Media Server Administration API Reference documents the ActionScript API you can use to make your own administration and monitoring tools.