Anything goes really, I return numbers, string, bools, arrays, objects and combinations of all the above depending on what is needed. In the use cases we are using this data service for:
Search Directory Articles Ecommerce Personalization The requests and responses are all different but we want a common way to develop them to completion. We would like a productive language like CF but it has to work in all cases. The fallback here is to just use Apache Axis with Java classes on the server side although I would prefer something simple and easy to change like CFC's. Cheers, Ted ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Andrew Muller > Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:05 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Web Services and CF7 > > So, silly question, how are you structuring/formatting the data that > you're returning from your webservice, something like arrays of > objects or is it CF query result sets? > > Andrew > > On 5/19/05, Theodore E Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Remoting is great but it has a core limitation of one request at a time > due > > the way AMF was implemented in the player. This is not the case with > > WebService calls as each request gets its own XML object and its own > > request > > socket. Even though the payload might be larger and the parsing takes > > longer, I want to avoid the issue of having remoting lock-up the AMF > pipe > > on > > a long running request. Call me paranoid. ;) > > > > The issue that I had heard about was that Flex 1.5 has trouble > digesting > > CFC > > web services due to certain xml usage. I wanted to make sure that Flex > 1.5 > > and CF7 had compatible SOAP formats. I know it sound ridiculous but I > have > > heard firsthand of some problems with compatibility of these two. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ted ;) > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On > > > Behalf Of Andrew Muller > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:57 PM > > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Web Services and CF7 > > > > > > Ted > > > > > > Is there any reason, since you're using CF7, why you wouldn't connect > > > from Flex via Flash Remoting instead of Web Services, you'd be > > > consuming the same CFC presumably and the data should be much less > > > verbose... > > > > > > > > > Andrew > > > > > > Andrew Muller > > > Partner, RocketBoots > > > http://www.rocketboots.com.au > > > > > > On 5/19/05, Theodore E Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am looking at using CF7 and CFC web services with Flex 1.5. I > > > understand > > > > that some have seen issues with using these two togther or was > this > > > limited > > > > to CF6? > > > > > > > > Can anyone highlight the issue for me? > > > > > > > > Any help would be most appreciated. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Ted Patrick > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ > > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > Service. > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/