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14 Chapter 1: Introducing ColdFusion MX
Using ColdFusion MX with Macromedia Flash MX
Macromedia Flash MX is designed to overcome the many limitations of HTML and solve the
problem of providing efficient, interactive, user interfaces for Internet applications. ColdFusion
MX is designed to provide a fast, efficient environment for developing and providing data-driven
Internet applications.
By using ColdFusion MX and Flash MX together, you can easily create complete visually
interactive applications for the Internet. ColdFusion MX provides a native Flash connectivity that
ensures visual applications created with Flash MX can easily and securely interact with
ColdFusion. Flash MX clients communicate efficiently with ColdFusion by using an Action
Message Format protocol over HTTP. This protocol provides fast, lightweight, binary transfer of
data between the Flash client and ColdFusion.
By using the following features of ColdFusion MX and Flash MX, you can create efficient data-
driven Internet applications with visually interactive user interfaces:
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Flash MX ActionScript commands
Lets you connect to ColdFusion components (CFC)
and ColdFusion pages.
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Flash MX development application debugger
Lets you trace your application logic as it
executes between Flash and ColdFusion.
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ColdFusion MX Server-Side ActionScript Lets Flash programmers familiar with
ActionScript create ColdFusion services, such as SQL queries, for use by Flash clients.
For more information about using Server-Side ActionScript and developing Flash applications in
ColdFusion, see
Developing ColdFusion MX Applications . For more information about using Flash
MX, go to Macromedia on the web (www.macromedia.com).