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Using the Flex Builder CF Wizard when deploying on a remote server

Posted At : August 10, 2006 1:37 AM | Posted By : Charlie Arehart
Related Categories: flex
If you try to use the Flex Builder CF Wizard, you may get tripped up by trying to deploy the resulting SWF (with its communication back to the CF Server) on a remote box (where that CF Server would live). It's easy enough to do, but it may fail to work, if you're not careful about how you configure things while running the wizard, to indicate that remote server URL. It was causing quite a bit of consternation for some, and finally Ken Reiss has observed the solution and blogged about it:

http://www.kenreiss.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/8/10/Flex-20-with-CFMX-702--SUCCESS

I just think this is something that others may trip over in the future and not find readily, so I want to point it out to those that I can.

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Flex 2 / CF Presentation by Ben Forta, now online

Posted At : August 8, 2006 10:12 PM | Posted By : Charlie Arehart
Related Categories: ajax, flex
If you're looking for yet another avenue of introduction to Flex and its intergration with CF, particularly a free one-hour Breeze session, check out the recording of BEn's presentation from a couple weeks ago:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=list&type=ondemand_seminar&loc=en_us

On that page, select ColdFusion or Flex from the product list on the right, and on the resulting page, don't be thrown off by the title, "Government: Building Rich Internet Applications". It's of value to all viewers.

As Ben is wont to do, he avoids being powerpoint-centric and jumps right into some generic Flex demos first, and then 20 minutes into it starts to really talk about Flex/CF integration. There's about 5 minutes of discussion after that and then he jumps into code-centric demos, showing the CF-related integration in some flex code and in the Flex Builder, including the wizard. By about 45 minutes he instead starts coding Flex/CF integration manually within the builder, which some may find compelling. There is Q&A throughout (which as always in Breezo's is a bit of a struggle, torn between answering questions and staying on topic) and a lot of Q & A at the end, which many may especially enjoy.

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