Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development

Chapter 35. Understanding ColdFusion-Powered Flex

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In This Chapter

• What Is the LCDS Server? 359

• RPC (Rest, Web Services, and Flash Remoting) 359

• Data Messaging 360

• Data Management 361

• How Does a Flex Application Communicate with ColdFusion? 362

• Session Scope 363

• ColdFusion and Flex Configurations 363

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Traditionally, Web application development has been a matter of generating HTML from a server application language, giving you the powerful yet dangerous capability to intermix your server logic with the generated HTML. In the beginning, this is what made ColdFusion such a powerful option—-execute a query, generate a table, execute another query, generate some more HTML, and so on. This made sense in the limited world of ...