Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development

Chapter 47. Using WDDX

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• Introducing WDDX E231

• Using WDDX with ColdFusion E234

• Anatomy of a WDDX Packet E241

• Using WDDX Packets to Store Information in Files E245

• Other Places to Store WDDX Packets E258

• Exchanging WDDX Packets Among Web Pages E260

• Binary Content in WDDX Packets E268

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When you’re developing Web applications with ColdFusion, you often deal with complex chunks of data, such as structures, recordsets returned from queries, and arrays. Often, you need to save that data to disk, store it in a database, or move it from one place to another. Sometimes you even need to pass these chunks of data between environments. For instance, you might want to move information from ColdFusion to JavaScript or ...