I don't think Flash does queries. It does as your Flash guy says, send
a request and receives responses - that is Flash remoting. So yes, you
should write CFCs that Flash will send requests to.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Robert Harrison
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're developing a data driven site where the front end will run in Flash.
>  I've written all the admin programs in CF. These handle all the DB updates
>  and ancillary file management.
>
>  Now we've looking at how to run the queries on the display side (flash). I
>  was expecting the Flash programmer to connect directly to the DB, run
>  queries from inside flash, and use the data to fill the flash page. I
>  thought that was Flash Remoting.
>
>  The flash programmer, however, wants me to write all the queries in CF
>  pages. He'll pass data to my CF pages, CF will do the queries, and I'll pass
>  back these big chunks of XML data (or strings). To me this seems a bit
>  questionable. If the DB can be queried directly from Flash wouldn't that be
>  more efficient?
>
>  Anyone have an ideas?
>
>         Run queries in CF and pass large data chunks into flash OR
>         connect flash to the SQL server (through a web service or something)
>  and run the queries from there?
>
>  Which is right/best?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Robert
>
>
>  Robert B. Harrison
>  Director of Interactive services
>  Austin & Williams
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