Greetings All - I am currently moving my Flex Application (which uses ColdFusion as the backend) to my customer's production server - and I am coming to grips with a frightening discovery: Microsoft has decided to drop JET support, for servers running in 64-Bit mode.
For some reason, this also translates to ADOBE not providing a native Access ODBC Driver in ColdFusion 8 (64-Bit Edition). I understand that there comes a time in the software business, where we must abandon older technologies in favor of new. However, there is usually some advanced notice given, in addition to "backwards compatibility options" for people that simply can't conform to the new ways. As a company, WE have upgraded all of OUR servers & software, to the latest technologies. But that doesn't change the fact that we have CUSTOMERS that provide data to us, using virtually the only portable Database format available (an Access .MDB file). I know this is the FlexCoders list and this is largely a ColdFusion question, but I can only assume that a large number of you have been faced with this problem & it makes sense to ask for help here. With that said, has anybody come across any solutions, that would allow for creating an Access data source using ColdFusion 8 running on Windows 2003 Server (in a 64-Bit environment across the board)? If a solution isn't found on this, heads will fly around here - as huge investments have been made in order to launch this Flex Application. Thank you in advance for any information that could help shed some light on this problem. Mike
