I couldn't agree more, it's best to keep things separate. In a CF project with Flex client, I would always setup at least two projects: for the server and for the client app. Tie the server project to my local CF dev server with a local apache or CF's dev http server and run it. I would strongly suggest that you actually create an ant build script as Robin has suggested, that makes your life much easier for large and potentially modularised projects but also when it comes to clean up old builds etc.
Additionally to that - I'm not a big fan of using Flex or Flash Builders built-in management of server paths etc. That pretty much compiles a whole lot of stuff into your swf and _can_ make your deployment reasonably inflexible. It's nicer to create all the remoting setting dynamically in your Flex app, but I have to say that it's pretty hard and badly documented for a beginner to follow down that path. Cheers Kai > >> How do all those agencies and development consultancies configure this? how >> do companies like Rocketboots and Daemon do it? (I guess they dont use >> Flash Builder 4 perhaps). > > Hi Mike, > > Just saw your post - the quick answer (speaking for RB) is that our Flex > client projects are entirely separate to our CF projects. If the .swf (or > .air*) needs to be downloaded from the site, we create a release build in the > client project and copy the output to the CF project. We should probably > automate this with a build script at some point in the future. We do use FB4, > although I found it worked best as a plugin to CFBuilder on my Mac. > > Remember that regardless of the cfc being called by the client, the actual > URL a remoting request goes to is /flex2gateway. > > Cheers, > Robin > > *BTW we've worked out how to dynamically create and sign .air files from a > ColdFusion request using adt.jar, Mark's JavaLoader.cfc and the Java Security > APIs. I should do a talk or blog post about it sometime, but if you need this > capability sooner for a project contact me off list. > > > ROBIN HILLIARD > Chief Technology Officer > ro...@rocketboots.com.au > > RocketBoots Pty Ltd > Level 11 > 189 Kent Street > Sydney NSW 2001 > Australia > Phone +61 2 9323 2507 > Facsimile +61 2 9323 2501 > Mobile +61 418 414 341 > www.rocketboots.com.au > -- Kai Koenig - Ventego Creative Ltd ph: +64 4 476 6781 - mob: +64 21 928 365 / +61 450 132 117 web: http://www.ventego-creative.co.nz blog: http://www.bloginblack.de twitter: http://www.twitter.com/agentK -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
