Question
BlazeDS and ColdFusion
A co-worker and I have been wrestling with this for a day and
a half now, and not sure why it's so difficult to find valid
information on it. Basically, we're trying to get BlazeDS working
with ColdFusion 8, to access CFCs. The basic word we've heard from
Adobe is 'it works,' but no one is saying how. I'll reference this
conversation that someone had with Tom Jordahl over on the Labs
Forum:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=667&threadid=1324193&highlight_key=y&keyword1=coldfusion
So, after reading that post I went through the pdf, and the flash remoting updater link (unnecessary). The final link was invalid, so I went to the cf8 livedocs and found the areas dealing with the flex2gateway.
There's way too much confusion in all of this. Our first real reference was in the BlazeDS release notes:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/BlazeDS:Release_Notes#Integrating_BlazeDS_with_a_ColdFusion_8_installation
This got it integrated, to a point. The first thing we notice here is the removal of the data-management-config.xml, which is the only config area (that we know of) where you can define a component for a destination (sort of required). It looks like it may be possible to configure an event gateway, but that could get counterproductive if you need a lot of small apps. I'm also not finding much of anything on how to set some of these configurations at runtime, rather than directly in the server configs. That makes anything developed very unportable.
Tom, it isn't very clear cut. At all.
What might be making things especially difficult, on our part, is that we are attempting to write an HTML AIR application that uses the Flex Ajax Bridge to communicate with BlazeDS. The JS libraries have Consumer and Producer objects, to which you can seemingly programmatically define channels and destinations (to a degree). They do not, on the other hand, have a RemoteObject object, which is the only (Flex) object I know of that lets you define a 'source' attribute.
If we can ever figure this out we'll probably have a great Dev Center article. I'm hoping that some of our troubles are just documentation issues relating to it only recently coming out of beta. If anyone can shed some light on our questions, your help would be greatly appreciated.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=667&threadid=1324193&highlight_key=y&keyword1=coldfusion
So, after reading that post I went through the pdf, and the flash remoting updater link (unnecessary). The final link was invalid, so I went to the cf8 livedocs and found the areas dealing with the flex2gateway.
There's way too much confusion in all of this. Our first real reference was in the BlazeDS release notes:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/BlazeDS:Release_Notes#Integrating_BlazeDS_with_a_ColdFusion_8_installation
This got it integrated, to a point. The first thing we notice here is the removal of the data-management-config.xml, which is the only config area (that we know of) where you can define a component for a destination (sort of required). It looks like it may be possible to configure an event gateway, but that could get counterproductive if you need a lot of small apps. I'm also not finding much of anything on how to set some of these configurations at runtime, rather than directly in the server configs. That makes anything developed very unportable.
Tom, it isn't very clear cut. At all.
What might be making things especially difficult, on our part, is that we are attempting to write an HTML AIR application that uses the Flex Ajax Bridge to communicate with BlazeDS. The JS libraries have Consumer and Producer objects, to which you can seemingly programmatically define channels and destinations (to a degree). They do not, on the other hand, have a RemoteObject object, which is the only (Flex) object I know of that lets you define a 'source' attribute.
If we can ever figure this out we'll probably have a great Dev Center article. I'm hoping that some of our troubles are just documentation issues relating to it only recently coming out of beta. If anyone can shed some light on our questions, your help would be greatly appreciated.
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