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Using ColdFusion with Flex – Part 2: Creating and running a CRM application


Tom Jordahl

Tom Jordahl

Principal Engineer

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Installing and configuring the application
  3. Understanding the application
Comments
Created:
27 June 2006
Modified:
23 April 2007
User Level:
Intermediate

Important note: Effective with the release of Adobe LiveCycle ES, the Adobe Flex Data Services 2 server product has been rebranded as a Solution Component of LiveCycle ES. This article was written based on Flex Data Services but will likely work as is with LiveCycle Data Services ES. Any articles referring to or using ColdFusion and Flex Data Services are not compatible with LiveCycle Data Services ES. To learn about the new capabilities of LiveCycle Data Services ES, see the tutorials in the LiveCycle Developer Center and read about Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES.

Adobe ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 enables you to create applications with the rich Internet capabilities of Adobe Flex and the advanced data retrieval features of ColdFusion. You can use ColdFusion to create, read, update, and delete records in a database while using the rich presentation features of Flex. This article is part of a series that demonstrates how you can use ColdFusion with Flex.

This article illustrates how you can manage relationships between objects with nested destinations using the Flex Data Services 2 CRM sample applications. This application demonstrates the following:

  • Using Flex Data Services with ColdFusion
  • Implementing a one-to-many data management application with CFML

This application is not intended to demonstrate development best practices. It was designed purely to demonstrate integration capabilities, functionality, and techniques.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Important note: Effective with the release of Adobe LiveCycle ES, the Adobe Flex Data Services 2 server product has been rebranded as a Solution Component of LiveCycle ES. This article was written based on Flex Data Services but will likely work as is with LiveCycle Data Services ES. Any articles referring to or using ColdFusion and Flex Data Services are not compatible with LiveCycle Data Services ES. To learn about the new capabilities of LiveCycle Data Services ES, see the tutorials in the LiveCycle Developer Center and read about Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES.

Flex Builder 2 (SDK Included)

Flex Data Services 2

Flash Player 9

ColdFusion MX 7.0.2  (Includes connectivity for ColdFusion with Flex 2)

ColdFusion Extensions for Flex Builder 2 (Already included in the download for Flex Builder 2)

Sample files:

Prerequisite knowledge

Familiarity with ColdFusion data management and general Flex concepts.

Additional documentation

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About the author

Tom Jordahl is a principal architect for Adobe in the ColdFusion development group. He has a long history with ColdFusion. Starting in his days as one of the original Allaire employees, through the current release, Tom has been instrumental in making ColdFusion the great product that it is. He is one of the implementers of Apache Axis and is the Adobe representative on the W3C Web Service Description WSDL 1.2 working group. Before getting involved in web services, he was the technical lead for the ColdFusion on UNIX products.