Thanks Matt....that's the "big picture" I was after.....and confirms that I'm not off my nut ;-)
Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Woodward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 1:07 PM Subject: Re: Open Lazlo vs. Flex > >OK...I'm still missing the bigger picture.... >> >>As I said already...the Lazlo demo leads me to belive it's only for UI >>coding (although there is talk of data....but via XML only). > > Flex and Laszlo are both presentation servers, so yes, they only deal with > the front end and presentation of data. > >> >>So does Lazlo (and Flex) have an equivalent of: >>-database interaction (CFQUERY) >>-conditional logic (CFIF/CFCASE) > > No, and yes. ;-) Database interaction is done through another technology > such as CF, for example. Laszlo and Flex don't talk directly to the > database--that's not their job. Using ActionScript in Flex you can of > course do all sorts of logic on the scripting side. I *believe* Flex uses > JavaScript as its scripting language, so whatever you can do in JS would > apply to Laszlo. > >>Or perhaps even simpler....can either of these do what CF can do (i.e. >>build >>an entire application) or are they more for the interface side of things >>and >>then levergae J2EE or CF for the "rest" of the app? > > Depends on what your app needs to do. You CAN build entire apps in Flex > or Laszlo, but without a database behind them, I'm not sure how useful > they'd be. > > Matt > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:213638 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
