Pinta – AMF debugger
I'm working on an AIR project that uses an AMF-service to get its data from. Writing such a service isn't difficult, but testing the AMF service functions isn't very straightforward. The way to do so now is to partially implement the client, and make it spit out debugging info. For this project however, since it relies heavily on AMF and there is no client-side app yet, I decided to write a debugging utility for it. It's called Pinta.
I suggested to the commissioner of the project (Axis.fm) that we release the tool under GNU/GPL, and they agreed. So, the tool can be found now on http://code.google.com/p/pinta.
What the tool does: it allows the user to connect to an AMF service and make calls, and prints out the results in text and tree forms. So basically, it's a generic AMF client. Since AMF has no service discovery methods, the user needs to define what services are available on the server. When the AMFPHP browser, that comes with a default install, is present on the server, Pinta can use it do discover the available services for you.
In the future, the plan is to build unit testing support into Pinta, so that with one click you can see if your AMF service still responds as it should.
More info about the tool can be found on the Google Code page, http://code.google.com/p/pinta. I hope the tool is useful to some, feel free to comment/request features/report issues.
