Dave Watts wrote: >> While the website looks modern the most recent download is >> 1999 and the last news item in 2001 talks about the new site >> openwddx.org opening. >> So ... is this an "old" technology that is begin replaced by >> a more mature XML environment? >> > > Yes, it's quite old - it dates from the CF 4 timeframe. I wouldn't say it's > being replaced by a "more mature XML environment", though - XML is XML - but > rather that programmers are becoming more familiar with working with XML > directly, and CF now provides the functionality to do so. The purpose of > WDDX is simply to describe common datatypes within XML. Most use of WDDX has > always been within CF programs, as well, rather than between CF programs and > other programs. The generic problem of data exchange and interoperability > has been solved (repeatedly) via SOAP, XML-RPC, and REST. > > All that said, if I have a complex datatype (query, structure, anything that > contains one of these such as an array of structures) and I want to quickly > convert it to a string and back again, WDDX is ideal and easy to use. > Now I think I got it. (Sometimes it just takes me a while;-) WDDX is now added to my toolkit of tricks. Thanks Dave.
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