----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Kerr" <fusionp...@yahoo.com> To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:25 AM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Flex server language
>I recommend you take a serious look at ColdFusion . Here is an Adobe site >that talks the > features and benefits of building RIAs with Adobe Flex/ColdFusion. > http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/flex_cf.html > > It is clearly the best fit promoted by Adobe. Adobe does a lot of work to > bring Flex and CF > together, such as out-of-the-flex support within CF. > > I agree. Any software language can meet any requirement. > > But, from my 20 years of doing/managing development in many different > server > technologies ... CF is by far the fastest to train, learn and implement > rapidly. Since you > know php, adding CF to your skill set will be any easy route to take. > After all, ColdFusion > is Java....just a heck of a lot easier. > > Good thing that Flex is Flexible and you can choose. I have some Flex > apps that use CF, > .Net, and Java on the back-end ... since in a Web 2.0/SOA architecture ... > you can have > many backends to a single Flex app. > > ... and the end user doesn't care what "shop" or "camp" your technology > religion is anyway. > :) > > Give CF a try. It will only take you a day to have your first Flex/CF app > up and running! > > Don Kerr Coming from a Java background and having had some small exposure to CF, I would agree with Don, particularly with the features that CF offers besides the scripting language and DB support - reporting especially. One thing really does concern me though about CF - how is it faring in the marketplace? In some quarters you'd imagine it was a dead technology from the way it is talked about and there always seems to be a disparity between it's functionality and takeup. Adopting a core serverver-side laguage is not easy - the market seems pretty fragmented. Paul > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "bsyyu" <ben.s...@...> wrote: >> >> currently, I am using PHP as server language. In fact I would like to >> learn other server language in combination using Flex. Any suggestion >> such as .NET, coldfusion or JSP.
