No you don't have to learn CF to do adobe flex. You can use any backend technology such as C#/ASP on the windows side or php/perl/ruby/java on the linux (or windows) side. I use reails on the backend myself.
As far as talking to the db directly theoretically it is possible but I dont think anyone has written a interface between any of the major databases and flex yet. On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Laurence MacNeill <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > I just signed up to this discussion list, hoping I can find some answers. > > My name is Laurence MacNeill, and I live in Mableton (just West of Atlanta, > about a mile outside I-285). I've been trying to learn Flex for a little > while now -- I bought a couple of books, one of which is "Training From the > Source: Adobe Flex 3." I have ColdFusion 8 installed on the computer I'm > using to learn Flex -- this computer will eventually be a server for the app > I'm trying to learn how to write. > > The book includes a "run-time" version of CF, but I cannot use that since > CF8 is already installed on the machine. So I need to know if anyone has > used this book, and can tell me how to "convert" the examples in the book to > work with CF8 installed on the machine. (Beginning in Chapter 17, they > expect the "run-time" CF server to be running, thus none of the examples > will work from that point on, because I cannot run their version of the CF > server.) > > And while I'm on the topic of CF -- I still really don't understand why I > need it... I'm a total newb to Flex, as you can probably tell, and I'm > still unclear on many aspects of it -- especially why I can't just talk to > the SQL server directly. I have posted on the Adobe forums, but still > really haven't gotten a clear answer as to why Flex can't talk to the SQL > server itself. > > Am I going to have to learn CF in addition to Flex, if I want to be able to > use MS-SQL to store my data? Or is it just a simple matter of telling CF > where the SQL source is, and then the Flex program will do the rest of the > work? > > I hope someone here can get me started on this -- it just seems so overly > complicated right now. > > Thanks, > L. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the > subject line > > For more info, see http://www.affug.com > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- http://www.atlantageek.com ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see http://www.affug.com Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40affug.com/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
