Hello all. I am very new to Flex so forgive me for the newby questions.
I have been reading about Flex Data Services, Web Services, etc and working through some examples from Adobe. My question is when is it necessary to return the data in XML and when is it ok to return other datatypes? If you read in this article by Ben Forta, it states "To make the integration as simple as possible, data types are preserved and automatically converted to their appropriate equivalent types. If ColdFusion returns a string, Flash receives a string; if ColdFusion returns a query, Flash receives an ArrayCollection, and so on." OK, simple enough. I have worked through examples that do just that. However, in another article on Adobe's web site (which I cannot locate now for the life of me), it stated that Flex only understands XML. The example on that page illustrated Flex calling a .cfm template, while the other examples are calling .cfc components. Is that the difference? When Flex calls a .cfm, it must receive XML? And when it calls cfc functions it can recieve other data types? Any clarification on this is appreciated. Steve
