Two reasons: 1) Because MM does not want to continue to invest in developing WDDX unless there is a substantial deman from its client base. I know this for fact beause I inquired about it.
2) I asked everyone here a couple of months ago if the OpenWDDX effort should be restarted and the consensus was the WDDX was fine in its current state. Rey... Calvin Ward wrote: > Yes, but a query will have a consistent xml structure that can then be > consistently accessed by JS (think WDDX). > > I think that's what folks are after. > > I'm not entirely sure why WDDX isn't being talked about more in regards to > AJAX... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Micha Schopman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:50 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Ajax and CFCs > > What type of structured data? The only thing you need to pass is XML. A CFML > Struct can be serialized into a XMLDocument, and the same counts for Arrays, > Lists, Queries, etc. you name it. > > Maybe I am missing the entire idea behind your goals :) > > Micha Schopman > Project Manager > > Modern Media, Databankweg 12 M, 3821 AL Amersfoort Tel 033-4535377, Fax > 033-4535388 KvK Amersfoort 39081679, Rabo 39.48.05.380 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----- > Modern Media, Making You Interact Smarter. Onze oplossingen verbeteren de > interactie met uw doelgroep. > Wilt u meer omzet, lagere kosten of een beter service niveau? Voor meer > informatie zie www.modernmedia.nl > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ----- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: dinsdag 16 augustus 2005 15:22 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Ajax and CFCs > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 7:28 AM >>To: CF-Talk >>Subject: Re: Ajax and CFCs >> >>On Monday 15 August 2005 20:12, Jim Davis wrote: >> >>>2) Passing structured data once you access them. >>>It's the second bit that gets confusing as hell. >> >>It's trival to write toXML() methods on all your objects. >>MM even have a query2xml on DevNet. > > > People that say things are "trivial" annoy me. ;^P > > It IS trivial on the server-side - not so trivial on the client side. > > Also it's trivial to write _A_ packet on the server and _A_ consumer on the > client for that one packet... but as you build more and more one-offs it > gets less and less "trivial". > > Again (and again and again) what we really need is a decent client-side > parser for common formats. The only truly common format right now is > SOAP-based web services (although they're still flaky as hell). > > IF you had such a library, completely client-side, you could instantly (in > theory) consume web services from nearly all major server-side packages > - > most with little to now extra coding. > > What we really need is a rich, client-implementable _standard_ for > transmission of structured data over HTTP. Something that (I think) needs > to be a little more complex than JSON but not as complex as SOAP. > Something > like WDDX could have fit well... but it seems to have withered on the vine. > > Jim Davis > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:215221 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
