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Using ColdFusion MX with Macromedia Flash MX 11
Using ColdFusion MX with Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Flash MX is designed to overcome the many limitations of HTML and
solve the problem of providing efficient, interactive, user interfaces for Internet
applications. ColdFusion MX is designed to provide a fast efficient environment for
developing and providing data-driven Internet applications.
By using ColdFusion MX and Flash MX together, you can easily create complete visually
interactive applications for the Internet. ColdFusion MX provides a native Flash
connectivity that ensures visual applications created with Flash MX can easily and
securely interact with ColdFusion. Flash MX clients communicate efficiently with
ColdFusion by using an Action Message Format protocol over HTTP. This protocol
provides fast, lightweight, binary transfer of data between the Flash client and
ColdFusion.
By using the following features of ColdFusion MX and Flash MX, you can create
efficient data-driven Internet applications with visually interactive user interfaces:
• Flash MX ActionScript commands Lets you connect to ColdFusion components
(CFC) and ColdFusion pages.
• Flash MX development application debugger Lets you trace your application
logic as it executes between Flash and ColdFusion.
• ColdFusion MX Server-Side ActionScript Lets Flash programmers familiar with
ActionScript create ColdFusion services, such as SQL queries, for use by Flash clients.
For more information about using Server-Side ActionScript in ColdFusion MX, see
Using Server-Side ActionScript in ColdFusion MX. For more information about developing
Flash application in ColdFusion, see Developing ColdFusion MX Applications with CFML.
For more information about using Flash MX, go to Macromedia on the web
(www.macromedia.com).