I'm not a CF person, but I can answer one part of this. While BlazeDS comes with a "turnkey" Tomcat install, it is relatively simple to install BlazeDS on an existing Tomcat install. I did this about a month ago - I don't remember the details - I just read the instructions and it was painless.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Giles Roadnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > I am primarily a Flex developer but I have also worked with Coldfusion in > the past and when building a non-Flex site this is the technology I use. I > also use CFCs to communicate with Flex apps. > > Having got used the the OO nature of flex working with CFCs is pretty > annoying. Java also seems the way that most people develop back ends for > Flex. The upshot is that I want to learn Java. I've already read through > Head First Java which was a very quick and easy way of learning the basics. > > I'm now onto Head First Servlets and JSP after which I'll move onto Head > First EJB™. > > I am wondering what the best development / production environment for me > will be. > > Am I correct in thinking that ColdFusion 8 (what I have installed on my > production and development environment) is not a full spec J2EE server? > > I still want to keep CF8 as I think the CFML is quicker and easier to write > basic dynamic pages than JSP so I want a full J2EE server with CF and I want > BlazeDS so my Java code can use AMF3 to talk to Flex. > > What I think I need to do is Install JBoss and install CF on top of that > then install BlazeDS. Is that correct? BlazeDS comes with tomcat so do I > have 2 instances of tomcat running or does the JBoss tomcat just get > overwritten? > > Any advice much appreciated. > > Thanks > > -- > Giles Roadnight > http://giles.roadnight.name > >
