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CHAPTER 6
Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion MX
To use Macromedia Flash Remoting for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 with Macromedia
ColdFusion MX, you build ColdFusion pages or ColdFusion components (CFCs). In
ColdFusion pages, you use the Flash variable scope to interact with Flash applications.
ColdFusion components provide native support for Flash interactions. In addition, you can use
ColdFusion’s server-side ActionScript functionality, which lets you query databases and perform
HTTP operations in ActionScript files on the server.
This chapter has the following sections:
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“Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion pages” on page 97
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“Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion components” on page 105
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“Using Flash Remoting with server-side ActionScript” on page 111
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“Calling web services from Flash Remoting” on page 115
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“Securing access to ColdFusion from Flash Remoting” on page 116
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“Handling errors with ColdFusion” on page 117
Using Flash Remoting with ColdFusion pages
When developing ColdFusion pages for use with Flash Remoting, you need to know how to do
the following:
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Determine the Flash service name for the ColdFusion page
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Pass parameters back and forth between the Flash application and the ColdFusion page
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Return information to a Flash application from a ColdFusion page
The following sections describe how to perform these actions.
Determining the Flash service name
When you build a ColdFusion page called from Flash applications, the directory name on the
server containing the ColdFusion page translates to the service name called in ActionScript from
Flash. The ColdFusion page names contained in that directory translate to service functions
in ActionScript.
