On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Lewis Donofrio <[email protected]>wrote:
> @ALEX - so does openbd run Adobe ModelGlue Adobe ModelGlue? :-) Yes, it runs Model-Glue fine, as well as Mach-II (actually we've run into far more issues with Mach-II due to Adobe CF bugs than anything we saw on OpenBD), ColdSpring, and I believe ColdBox now as well. ColdBox uses interfaces which have been in BD/OpenBD for a long time but Adobe implemented them differently. > and other FX abilities (ala > CF8 or CF9 calls?) > If FX = Flex then kinda sorta. You can drop in BlazeDS and we have some rudimentary hooks to get communication rolling. We've just had so few people asking for that it hasn't been worth the effort to take it further. And of course Flex doesn't HAVE to talk to the CFML engine directly since it'll talk HTTP, SOAP, etc. just fine. Mini soap box since this is relevant to something I'm doing at work right now, and totally my own perspective/opinion before the hate mail comes flying, Flex is very niche and becoming moreso by the day with HTML 5. So while I can't speak for Andy or Alan, I don't see bolstering Flex remoting as something that will likely be a priority for the OpenBD project because there isn't any demand from users, and people and companies (c.f. Pandora, YouTube, Vimeo, SlideShare, etc. etc.) are very actively moving away from Flash-based solutions. That's not to say Flex doesn't have its use, and sure Flash has capabilities HTML 5 doesn't (yet), but you have to really, really need Flex/Flash before signing on for everything it entails. That said I can tell you from experience just this week ripping the Flex datagrid out of a 3 year old application and replacing it with DataTables was like removing a massive tumor from the application. So short answer is no, no Flex remoting capabilities exactly parallel to Adobe CF and likely won't be. But if someone with the Java chops to do so wants to pick up where we left off with the BlazeDS integration I'm happy to point you in the right direction. If I remember correctly the next step would have been to convert data types between CFML and Flex. But I'd say just use OpenBD to pump data back to Flex in a more generic format--that makes it much more flexible anyway. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
