NetConnection Debugger is a free tool provided by Macromedia with the Flash IDE and Flex. Currently it is the only other known way to easily watch AMF traffic. After using NetConnection Debugger for a few months I became very frustrated and attempted to fix all of the following issues with ServiceCapture:
- Object hierarchy was diffcult to read, especially with large data objects
- Debugging requires special configuration in flex-config
- Debugging requires import of extra classes adds overhead to compiled swfs
- Difficult to debug on production systems not configured for testing
- It does not display other pertinent information like xml and text requests