Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide

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 ...