Question
CF and Web Services
I'm looking for some general feedback on CF and consuming web
services. I have worked with CF for the last 4 years, and have been
quite happy with overall functionality, ease of use, performance,
and stability.
My company is migrating to a new CRM system, and I am part of the team which will build a Web portal/application into this system. It is a Microsoft CRM system, so we will utilize Web services to interact with this database.
We have never worked with Web services, and I am researching and trying to learn about consuming Web services with CF. And based on what I've seen in the last couple of weeks, I feel overwhelmed, and feel almost as if I'm having to learn a whole new language, even though it's still CF. In some very high-level testing that I've done, I've successfully connected to the test web service, but it was challenging to get this far. And "this far" is just authenticating against the database - not querying for data, getting results, passing input variables, adding or updating data, etc. You know, the really useful stuff :--) I just don't know if CF is the best route here.
It has been suggested that we move to an IIS/ASP.NET platform for our Web server, because it would give us much better integration with CRM. That's a whole new learning curve, since we haven't used ASP in the past, but I feel like we're facing a whole new learning curve with CF and Web services anyway.
If there's anyone out there who has experience with CRM or web services, can you offer me any guidance or general information about what we might face if we stick with CF? We will need to make a decision on this in the near future, so if you have any experiences/opinions that you can share, I'd be very grateful.
Thank you.
My company is migrating to a new CRM system, and I am part of the team which will build a Web portal/application into this system. It is a Microsoft CRM system, so we will utilize Web services to interact with this database.
We have never worked with Web services, and I am researching and trying to learn about consuming Web services with CF. And based on what I've seen in the last couple of weeks, I feel overwhelmed, and feel almost as if I'm having to learn a whole new language, even though it's still CF. In some very high-level testing that I've done, I've successfully connected to the test web service, but it was challenging to get this far. And "this far" is just authenticating against the database - not querying for data, getting results, passing input variables, adding or updating data, etc. You know, the really useful stuff :--) I just don't know if CF is the best route here.
It has been suggested that we move to an IIS/ASP.NET platform for our Web server, because it would give us much better integration with CRM. That's a whole new learning curve, since we haven't used ASP in the past, but I feel like we're facing a whole new learning curve with CF and Web services anyway.
If there's anyone out there who has experience with CRM or web services, can you offer me any guidance or general information about what we might face if we stick with CF? We will need to make a decision on this in the near future, so if you have any experiences/opinions that you can share, I'd be very grateful.
Thank you.
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