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Ben Forta

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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Why care about Flex
  3. The story thus far
  4. Flex 2 changes everything
  5. ColdFusion + Flex
  6. Where to go from here
Created:
27 June 2006
User Level:
Beginner
Products:
Flex

Welcome to ColdFusion-powered Flex

It's been two years since Macromedia first released Flex, giving us a glimpse of what the future of web application development could (and should) look like. During this time Flex has been successfully deployed in a variety of organizations, both public and private. The highest profile Flex deployment to date is obviously Yahoo! Maps, which is built using Flex 1.5

And now Adobe Flex 2 has arrived, adding lots more functionality, and making Flex far more accessible to developers everywhere. What does this mean for us ColdFusion developers?

Requirements

To make the most of this article, you need to install the following software and files:

ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 (includes connectivity with Flex 2)

Flex Builder 2

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About the author

Ben Forta is the Adobe senior product evangelist and the author of numerous books, including ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on SQL, JavaServer Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, the certification tests and Macromedia Press study guides for those tests, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing, speaking, and writing about application development worldwide. Visit Ben's blog to read his regular postings on ColdFusion and more.