User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About Flash Remoting
- Getting Started
- Using Flash Remoting ActionScript
- Using the RemotingConnector component (Flash Professional only)
- Using Flash Remoting Data in ActionScript
- About Flash Remoting and data types
- Understanding Action Message Format
- Converting from ActionScript to application server data types
- Converting from application server data types to ActionScript
- ColdFusion to ActionScript data conversion issues
- About working with objects
- About working with RecordSet objects
- About working with XML
- The NetConnection Debugger
- Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion MX
- Using Flash Remoting for Java
- About Flash Remoting for Java
- Calling Java classes or JavaBeans from ActionScript
- Calling Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) from Flash
- Calling servlets and JSPs from Flash
- Calling JMX MBeans from Flash (JRun only)
- Calling server-side ActionScript from Flash (JRun only)
- Handling function results in ActionScript
- Using Flash Remoting with JRun security
- Passing XML objects between Flash and Java
- Viewing Flash Remoting log entries
- Using Flash Remoting for Microsoft .NET
- Flash Remoting for Microsoft .NET
- Calling ASP.NET pages from Flash
- Making an ASP.NET page available to Flash Remoting
- Getting a reference to an ASPX-based service in ActionScript
- Invoking ASPX pages in ActionScript
- Using the Flash Remoting custom server control in ASPX pages
- Using the Flash Remoting namespace in code-behind files
- Using ASP.NET state management with Flash Remoting
- Using ASP.NET exception handling
- Using ADO.NET objects with Flash Remoting
- Displaying a RecordSet object in Flash with ActionScript
- Calling web services from Flash
- Calling ASP.NET assemblies from Flash
- Viewing Flash Remoting log entries
- Using NetServices and Connection Classes
- Index
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CHAPTER 6
Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion MX
To use Macromedia Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 with Macromedia
ColdFusion MX, you build ColdFusion pages or ColdFusion components (CFCs). In
ColdFusion pages, you use the Flash variable scope to interact with Flash applications.
ColdFusion components provide native support for Flash interactions. In addition, you can use
ColdFusion’s server-side ActionScript functionality, which lets you query databases and perform
HTTP operations in ActionScript files on the server.
This chapter has the following sections:
• “Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion pages” on page 97
• “Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion components” on page 105
• “Using Flash Remoting with server-side ActionScript” on page 111
• “Calling web services from Flash Remoting” on page 115
• “Securing access to ColdFusion from Flash Remoting” on page 116
• “Handling errors with ColdFusion” on page 117
Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion pages
When developing ColdFusion pages for use with Flash Remoting, you need to know how to do
the following:
• Determine the Flash service name for the ColdFusion page
• Pass parameters back and forth between the Flash application and the ColdFusion page
• Return information to a Flash application from a ColdFusion page
The following sections describe how to perform these actions.
Determining the Flash service name
When you build a ColdFusion page called from Flash applications, the directory name on the
server containing the ColdFusion page translates to the service name called in ActionScript from
Flash. The ColdFusion page names contained in that directory translate to service functions
in ActionScript.