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Anonymous
May 25, 2006
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ColdFusion vs Flex

  • May 25, 2006
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I don't understand the relationship between these two. They both seem to be tools for developing internet applications.

Is Flex a replacement for ColdFusion MX ?

Is there a paper which discusses these two tecnologies and explains the differences/relationships ?

Which is to be used and when ?
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    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    May 25, 2006
    > Which is to be used and when ?

    To draw an over-simplified parallel, Flex is to Flash "movies" what CF is
    to HTML; or Flex is for creating content for FlashPlayer, whereas CF is for
    creating content for web-browsers (I *did* say it was over-simplified, and
    I'm not finished yet!).

    Slightly more tenuously, but to build on the same parallel, it could be
    said that one uses FlashMX.exe to "draw" SWFs, just as one uses DreamWeaver
    (etc) to "draw" HTML websites. Flex and CF, respectively, are used to
    automate and make-dynamic this process, by offering a programmatic platform
    to effect each end.

    That said - and this is the most important bit - Flex is *specifically* for
    the clientside/UI part of the application, and is geared towards talking to
    a separate "back end" server which handles the server side of the
    client/server processing relationship. And indeed CF can provide the
    server-side of that (although Flex is not intrinsically coupled to CF, so
    CF is not the *required* back-end).

    They're complementary technologies that reside in the same sphere of
    software application development (internet-oriented ones).

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    Adam
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    Anonymous
    May 25, 2006
    that helps.

    I understand now that flex can work with other backends like asp or jsp as well as cf

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    SafariTECH
    Inspiring
    May 25, 2006
    ?Flex is for Flash - CF is for web application pages - CF uses a version of Flex for much of it's Flash capabilities. They are not related.
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    Anonymous
    May 25, 2006
    Flex says it's for "rich internet applications" too.

    http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/whitepapers/flashpaper_techwp.html

    Are these competing products ...?

    The two seem to be overlapping technologies. Is ColdFusion going away ?

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