Laurence, I'm a newbie also, except I've been playing with Flex for about a month.
This Flex technology is extensive. Much to learn with very few direct examples In some of the more difficult areas. I too am using MySQL and there is no direct interface from Flex to MySQL. The FLEX technology was probably not meant to just interface with any one data provider. There is one package I found on the Web that allows you to mimic a JDBC Interface to a database. I'll need to go back and find its name (assql I think). Never tried it, so can't comment on its effectiveness. What I decided to do is create a Web Service, in effect a data service using Web Services. Since MySQL comes from Sun I pulled down Sun's Application Server - Glassfish. It is hosting the WebService which goes thru JDBC to MySQL. This is one alternative. There are several others that may not be that complicated. Let me know what you've done. Henry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurence MacNeill Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 5:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFFUG Discuss] New member with many questions... 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- ***** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers. GA625 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------
