Hi, Macromedia Flex is a presentation server or layer and final output(.swf) runs in Macromedia Flash Player on client side. It means, Flex/Flash applications communicate to database via a middle-ware or server-side script.
Flex can communicate with backend in following ways: 1) HTTPService (HTTP POST/GET method) 2) WebServices 4) RemoteObject (Macromedia Flash Remoting, uses AMF a binary format). The higher level ideas is to communicate with a server-side script/program and that server-side script connects to DB gets data and returns to Flex client... Since you are using ColdFusion Server, you can take advantage of all of above methods. IMO, RemoteObject is the best option among them. I can't write about all steps of doing things, but I can give you ideas so that you can look into documentation and find your way... On server-side, you can write Coldfusion Component (CFC) or ColdFusion Page (.CFM) and Cold WebService to connect to database and get the data. Flex can connect to either of these using RemoteObject, HTTPService and WebService tags of Flex respectively. I will suggest you to look at Coldfusion documentation on writing CFC/CFM and connecting to databases. And look for RemoteObject/HTTPService/WebService in Flex documentation... Believe me, it is very easy to get data in Flex once you understand some fundamentals... I hope above brief description on different things give you enough keywords to search in docs :) -abdul -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Rottman Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:43 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Getting Data into flex I have recently started programming in flex. Only about a week into it. So far I can gotten a fairly good understanding of it. But the one issue that I am having ins bringing data in from a database. My current setup is. Coldfusion mx 7.0 (bound to apache 2.54.0) Apache 2.54.0 mysql 4.* Flex 1.5 (unbound to apache or tomcat, using internal jrun) Linux Distro: mdk10.2 with my current setup, how would I bring data in from my database into flex. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com 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/
