September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
18h 43m
English
Content preview from Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide
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Service Name Mappings
The different types of services that ColdFusion supports are referenced in different ways from the client when calling NetConnection.getService( ). For example, you must reference a service implemented as a ColdFusion page differently than a ColdFusion Component. Table 5-2 shows how different types of services should be referenced using getService( ).
Table 5-2. How to reference remote services in ColdFusion
|
Service type |
Name of service |
Name of remote function |
|
ColdFusion page |
The directory that the ColdFusion page (.cfm file) resides in, expressed in dot notation |
The name of the ColdFusion page that you want to invoke in the specified directory |
|
ColdFusion Component |
The entire path to the ColdFusion Component (.cfc component file) from the web root, expressed in dot notation |
The name of the function in the specified .cfc file |
|
Server-Side ActionScript |
The full path to the SSAS file (.asr file) from the web root, expressed in dot notation |
The name of the function in the specified .asr file |
Order of Service Lookup
In order to adapt to a variety of software architectures and personal preferences, ColdFusion supports Flash Remoting services implemented in a few different ways. You can write your remote services as ColdFusion pages, ColdFusion Components, or Server-Side ActionScript. When the Flash client references a remote service on the ColdFusion Server, ColdFusion looks up the service on the server and invokes it, returning the result to the Flash ...
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