I'm currently working on an application build with Flash Media Server (FMS) and Flash 8. When the application goes live I will post a link to it. I think if Flex 2 has came out one month sooner I would have used Flex. Although the challenge was big enough with FMS alone. And the gap between Actionscript 1.0 (FMS) and Actionscript 3.0 (Flex2) would be to big.

For future Flash Media Server-ish assignments I will look at Red5, althought I have trouble understanding the way it supposed to be loaded in to Eclipse and how to create my own applications. This is because my Java skills are a bit rusty at the moment, but I found a nice tutorial.

Skinning

One of the applications (there are four apps) required skinning, one swf, multiple skins. It required that the main swf (the engine) doesn't need to be recompiled when adding a skin so I created a technique for skinning which works pretty well.

For every skin element there is an instance of the class SkinLoader which loads an external swf containing the skin (9-sliced). It works better than I expected (nice idea for Adobe for Flash 9: Vector Caching, or does Flex 2 already offer that?).