If you are developing Enterprise level applications chances are you are either used Omniture or you will be asked to integrate with Omniture tracking services. This post is not really about the specifics of Omniture tracking, but rather about the implementation methods for Flash, Flex, and AIR (with Flex). Usually, Omniture tracking events are sent using JavaScript on a web page. An HTML page would include the Omniture JavaScript library and events in your web application would call methods in the libary.
When creating RIA with Flex or Flash you have a couple of options. Ominture provides a proprietary ActionScript library, called ActionSource, for easy integration. ActionSource is a Flash MXP component library that transmits analytic data to Omniture without relying on calling JavaScript methods. This implementation is best for situation when your have a Flash file that can not call JavaScript. Brightcove has a good article describing this type of implemenation. Integrating Omniture services with Flex does not require the ActionSource library.
Flex has the ability to write and call JavaScript directly. With Flex, you can use the ExternalInterface call to call JavaScript functions on the page. So a typical call might look like this:
