[CFCDev] web service API

[Christian Cantrell]

I'm thinking of building an application that will have both a Flash and 
HTML interface.  My initial thought was to encapsulate all my business 
logic in components which can be accessed by ColdFusion, then create a 
web service or Flash Remoting facade for the Flash interface.  Another 
approach, however, would be to only create web services, and have both 
the Flash and ColdFusion interface use the components as web services.  
The advantages of an architecture like this are:

- Simplicity.  Just one external interface for both CF and Flash.
- Distribution.  I could potentially run the CF interface on a 
different server than the CF web services (though I must admit, I don't 
foresee a need to do something like this, but it still seems like an 
interesting option to have).

The biggest disadvantage would probably be performance, although at 
this point, I don't have a good sense of how much additional overhead I 
would be dealing with.

What do you guys think?  Has anyone done something like this?

Christian

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