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August 8, 2007
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Why Coldfusion and Flex ?

  • August 8, 2007
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im beginner in Adobe technologies, and i have many questions about their development products .
at present, im working on Flex to create some charting tool . i was asked by my supervisor to do it using Flex though i have no experience about it but eventually i find it easy to use.

today i have read about Coldfusion but i didn't cover the idea behind it and the its goal.
i know that Flex and coldfusion can coerporate . but why they are not a single product. does each one has its own use case. or they both have the same goals which is creating rich controls but with different ways ?
when do i need to use Flex and when do i need to use Coldfusion ?
i hope someone here can answer my questions.
thank you
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    Participating Frequently
    August 8, 2007
    Flex is basically to develop and design UI for your web page.

    ColdFusion is a server side language executed at server end. Flex can talk to Coldfusion through remoting and Coldfusion can do all DB operations to provide data to Flex. When we use both Flex and ColdFusion then there are two layers in the application. We can create UI in ColdFusion as well if we do not want to have Flex as UI. In this case we will have only one layer in the application.

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    Inspiring
    August 8, 2007
    Flex is a way of producing Flash applications. If you want your web page to contain a swf, flex is one way to achieve this.

    Cold Fusion is an application server that enables you to introduce programming logic into your web pages, get them to interact with databases, and a bunch of other things. It was developed indepentantly of Flash, but can be used in conjunction with Flash.