Accessibility

ColdFusion Article

 

Managing Adobe AIR updates with ColdFusion 8


David Tucker

David Tucker

DavidTucker.net

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Updating Adobe AIR applications
  3. Leveraging ColdFusion in the update process
  4. Communication between ColdFusion and Adobe AIR
  5. Managing updates in ActionScript
  6. Reacting to events in ActionScript
  7. Integrating the update manager
Created:
29 October 2007
Modified:
25 February 2007
User Level:
Intermediate, Advanced
Products:
ColdFusion

Now that you can develop professional full-scale applications using Adobe AIR, you will need a way to effectively manage updates to these applications. Through this tutorial you will develop a management system for your Adobe AIR application updates that will work in Flash, Flex, or HTML/JavaScript Adobe AIR applications. ColdFusion 8 will be used to store and serve the updates to the Adobe AIR applications.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Adobe AIR 1.0

ColdFusion 8

Sample files

Prerequisite knowledge

To fully benefit from this tutorial, you will need to have an understanding of ColdFusion components as well as how to use ColdFusion with a database. You will also need to have an intermediate understanding of ActionScript 3.0.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

Page 1 of 7
Next Page

About the author

David is a software engineer with Universal Mind where he focuses on Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR development. David is an avid blogger and can be found at both InsideRIA.com as well as DavidTucker.net. When he isn't staring at a computer screen he loves to play guitar and experiment with audio recording.