Rob Brooks-Bilson
Tech, Photography, Stuff
Tech, Photography, Stuff
February 1, 2006
By now, you've probably heard that Adobe released a public beta of the upcoming Flex 2 platform. What you may not know, however, is that there's also an update to ColdFusion MX 7 (Mystic) in beta as well.
This new version contains enhancements designed to support advanced Flex integration from within ColdFusion. Enhancements include an update to Flash remoting to support ActionScript 3 as well as an event gateway for communication with thenew Flex messaging service.
Adobe states that "ColdFusion simply provides the easiest way to create a publish/subscribe messaging system with Flex." I haven't had a chance to play with the Mystic/Flex 2.0 combo yet, but I'm really looking forward to the possibilities.
2/1/06 8:03 AM
Of course, there's a nice sample application from Ben Forta: http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/2/1/ColdF...
The best thing about the sample is it shows mapping AS3 classes to CFC instances, with automatic conversion, making it possible to seemlessly pass VOs around on both client and server. That's what has me most excited about Mystic.
2/1/06 8:15 AM
Thanks Darron - I kinda left out the whole value object piece!