To answer your question on the lack of support, you may want to read
this article as a reason why Adobe is competing against Apple so
aggressively,
http://counternotions.com/2007/11/15/apple-runtime-answer-2/
This year I made the change to a MacPro "8-core Tower of Power" as
they call it, and it's been the best decision I've made.
I'm still interested in 64-bit Vista, but it's secondary to MacPro OS
X, and I also hope Papervision3D goes out on it's own and creates a
Plug-in of it's own at this critical time of change.
Right now there's a large leap in graphics occurring and the group of
developers at Papervision3D seem like some really smart guys. They
should do their own thing, support Adobe if they want, that's cool,
but don't lap-dog them......all Papervision3D needs to do now is
integrate with IT models like that which you just spoke of like
ColdFusion, etc., but ultimately SOAP or simple RESTful XML protocols.
I started out on a Mac for the papers in college, but on Sparc
Stations for more serious development.
I absolutely love Mac OS X.
I followed ColdFusion before it was purchased, it was ahead of it's
time...good product. I'd recommend you use whatever you know best and
keep XML as the data model, by W3C standards, and look for ways to
convince Papervision3D and perhaps NVIDIA to lead to way for graphics
providers to promote a new type of plug-in.
The IT model should be separated. AJAX + a high performance
"Papervision3D" plug-in that can serve it's purpose. I'm already
looking into contributing something of this sort to OpenLaszlo.org,
because if you become a developer, your contribution can be used by
all, and you can use all contributions.
If I were you, I would contact AAdobe support and ask why, regarding
your ColdFusion question, and if there is no planned support, document
it and save it for future reference.
I believe all developers should be very careful in their choices of
vendors. I've made many mistakes myself in this area, but despite how
I'm viewed by a few people on this list, my intentions are good.
Things are changing.
Check out this excellent and far superior replacement for the Flex
Builder IDE, called FTD 3.0,
http://fdt.powerflasher.com/
I don't plan on spending another dime on any Adobe software. SWF is
an open format. The FLEX SDK is open source.
Papervision3D team is far superior to anyone at Adobe.
-r
On Aug 30, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Alan wrote:
So......
I'm all excited about integrating Flex and Coldfusion, only to find
out there are features that don't exist on the mac.
So far I've found....
Flex / Coldfusion Project set up is not supported
Coldfusion query builder
For the love of God why?
Alan
