Re: [AFFUG Discuss] New member with many questions...

[Darrell Ross]

Laurence, Can you describe the types of apps or sites you've developed in the past?  I get the sense that you are used to using tools like Dreamweaver or Visual Basic to create HTML or ASP pages and bind those directly to a database.  If we know a little more about where you are coming from, we may be able to better guide you.   The apps built by those on this forum use some form of an application server to serve as a bridge between the UI and the database.  Back to your original question....CF is an application server which contains much of the "server-side" business logic, which forms the basis of your app.  One of the other respondents (Atlanta Geek) suggested alternative application server technologies (C#/ASP, Ruby, Java, etc).  However, if you're not familiar with application servers, then those alternatives don't make any sense either........we may need to steer you in another direction. Darrell Ross Partner Enablus  |  30000 Mill Creek Ave, Suite 425, Alpharetta, GA  30022 T: (404) 492-8115  |   F: (866) 434-3596  |  C: (404) 392-6592 http://www.enablus.com The information transmitted (including any attachments) is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are hereby notified that any use, review, re-transmission, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited by law. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. On Apr 6, 2009, at 6:28 PM, Laurence MacNeill wrote: At 06:13 PM 4/6/2009, you wrote: 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. I don't know anything about those other options you mentioned.  And the people I'm writing this app for are already using CF anyway, so I guess I'll have to learn it.  Yuck. So why is there no direct interface built-in to Flex, anyway?  Anyone know?    What I mean is, why didn't Adobe build-in an interface to the more popular databases?  Seems like that would've made life a lot simpler. Laurence MacNeill Mableton, Georgia, USA ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------