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About using the Flash Remoting service with ColdFusion

Using the Flash Remoting service of ColdFusion MX, ColdFusion developers can work together
with Macromedia Flash MX designers to build Flash user interfaces (UIs) for ColdFusion
applications. Building Flash UIs requires the separation of UI code from business logic code. User
interface controls are built in Flash MX, while business logic is built in ColdFusion MX.
The following is a simplified representation of the relationship between Flash and ColdFusion:

Planning your Flash application

When planning ColdFusion application development with Flash UIs, remember the importance
of separating display code from business logic. Separating display code, such as HTML, from
business logic, such as CFML, enables your ColdFusion applications to interact with multiple
client types, such as Flash movies, web browsers, and web services.
Building ColdFusion applications for multiple clients means that your ColdFusion pages and
components return common data types, including strings, integers, query objects, structures, and
arrays. Clients that receive the results can process the passed data according to the client type,
such as ActionScript with Flash or CFML with ColdFusion.
To use the Macromedia Flash Remoting service with Macromedia ColdFusion MX, you build
ColdFusion pages and components or deploy Java objects. In ColdFusion pages, you use the Flash
variable scope to interact with Flash applications. ColdFusion components natively support Flash
interaction. In addition, you can use the ColdFusion server-side ActionScript functionality, which
lets you query databases and perform HTTP operations in ActionScript files on the server. The
public methods of Java objects are also available to the Flash Remoting service.
The remaining sections in this chapter explain developing Flash applications with ColdFusion.
642 Chapter 29: Using the Flash Remoting Service