Thanks for your thoughts on Mach II. I think I will do it in Mach II and
see what happens in the flash/flex world. I think this is the URL you are
talking about for Sean's article on mm.com:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/wtg/public/machiidevguide/
That's the Mach II Development Guide but I think he was referring to my earlier article on fa�ades:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flashremoting/articles/facades.html
(I think - if not, go to the Developer Center, go into the Architecture topic and it's the article on optimizing applications with design patterns)
a better integration with flash in the future release.
Yes, I'm in two minds about that... Mach II provides an elegant MVC solution in CF. When you build an RIA tho' at least part of the controller needs to move into the Flash part of the application - you move toward MVP (Model-View-Presenter) where the Presenter is part-Flash, part-CF and acts as a controller-for-views in the Flash part and as a controller-for-model in the CF part. That's why it's tricky to graft Flash onto the front-end of Mach II - you really need an ActionScript event handling system that then makes Remoting calls to a specialized fa�ade on the Mach II application. Just my 2�...
Like Flash / Flash Remoting, Flex also requires a remote-CFC interface to interact with ColdFusion so I suspect that similar concerns apply for integrating Mach II with Flex, i.e., the problem is that Mach II does not expose a Web Service-style API.
Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/
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