Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-21 Thread Brandon Harper
On 7/20/06, dcooper @ macromedia. com dcooper @ macromedia. com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, just doing some testing on these tags (cfthread and cfjoin) and I hope to have them posted on my blog today or tomorow. They'l require CF7, but Standard Edition is fine (Enterprise not required).

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-21 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 20 July 2006 18:47, Dante Orlando wrote: So out of curiosity, why didn't MACR implement cfthread/cfjoin instead of the async gateway in the first place? It's apples and oranges isn't it ? Thread support is something you can do with the gateway, but the gateway also offers you a lot

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-21 Thread dcooper
CFTHREAD CFJOIN proof of concept tags for CF7 posted: http://www.dcooper.org/blog/client/index.cfm Damon FYI, just doing some testing on these tags (cfthread and cfjoin) and I hope to have them posted on my blog today or tomorow. They'l require CF7, but Standard Edition is fine

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-20 Thread dcooper
FYI, just doing some testing on these tags (cfthread and cfjoin) and I hope to have them posted on my blog today or tomorow. They'l require CF7, but Standard Edition is fine (Enterprise not required). Using the these tags with CF7 won't give you the thread pooling and other fine-grained

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-20 Thread Dante Orlando
On 7/18/06, dcooper @ macromedia. com dcooper @ macromedia. com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, we did cfthread tag in about a day...we're debating whether to toss it out there as an open source project... So out of curiosity, why didn't MACR implement cfthread/cfjoin instead of the async

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
FYI, just doing some testing on these tags (cfthread and cfjoin) and I hope to have them posted on my blog today or tomorow. They'l require CF7, but Standard Edition is fine (Enterprise not required). Just out of curiosity, what is cfjoin? -Dan

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-20 Thread Andy Allan
The NewAtlanta folks are adding CFTHREAD/CFJOIN to BD7. It allows you to fire off an asynch request and then get it back. Looks like Damon and the CF folks are going to give us this as an unsupported(?) addon. Andy On 20/07/06, Dan G. Switzer, II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, just doing some

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-20 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
Andy, The NewAtlanta folks are adding CFTHREAD/CFJOIN to BD7. It allows you to fire off an asynch request and then get it back. Looks like Damon and the CF folks are going to give us this as an unsupported(?) addon. Thanks for the response, that clears it up! _Dan

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-19 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
Some would disagree ;-) heh ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:53 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion Bobby Hartsfield

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Tue Jul 18 05:41:26 2006 Subject: Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion In about 2 days I've got a really light weight Asyncronous HTTP caller lib coming out. It allows you to make asyncronous GET and POST requests to any given URL. I haven't

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Nick de Voil
I am aware (somewhat!) of the asynchronous Web services capability with CFCs in ColdFusion. What would listers recommend if I simply want to call a ColdFusion action page asynchronously. The asychronous call is a one-way trip and does not require data back to the caller. The really simple

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 17 July 2006 17:10, Rick Root wrote: That wouldn't be asynchronous though. Because his page would wait for the CFHTTP to complete. Not if you set a low timeout value :-) -- Tom Chiverton This email is sent for and on behalf of

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
asychronous call to ColdFusion Tom Chiverton wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 16:07, Paul Fraser wrote: I would prefer to not go the CFC route, but I am open to persuasion. The poor mans version could fire off a CFHTTP request to a page to do the heavy lifting, and then print the 'all OK' message

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread dcooper
Yeah, we did cfthread tag in about a day...we're debating whether to toss it out there as an open source project... Damon Hmmm...sounds like a perfect use of the new CFTHREAD tag in BD 7.0: http://blog.newatlanta.com/index. cfm?mode=entryentry=152A1ECC-B7C2-5C0D-4269B203A722C055 Vince

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
] To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Tue Jul 18 17:23:22 2006 Subject: Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion Yeah, we did cfthread tag in about a day...we're debating whether to toss it out there as an open source project... Damon Hmmm...sounds like a perfect use of the new

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread dcooper
I should add: 1) This was built by one of our developers in his personal time, so it'd be unsupported by us officially, etc, but we'll see if it makes sense to post on something like the Adobe Exchange, etc, and/or roll into the product in a future update. 2) Customers using CF7 Enterprise

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Andy Allan
So, would this still be an Enterprise only feature then? Or would the tag be usable in Standard? (You do realise that if you say Ent only then all hell will reign down upon you from others currently watching this thread :) Andy On 18/07/06, dcooper @ macromedia. com dcooper @ macromedia. com

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Rick Root
Bobby Hartsfield wrote: If you were going to do that, couldn't you just use fancyTitleAJAX/fancyTitle ? Probably, but that wouldn't be low-tech ;) ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting,

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread dcooper
Not sure, TBD :) (don't need to stinkin hell raining down on me! :) Let me just say that there's nothing (*technically*) that ties it to the gateway infrastructure... Damon So, would this still be an Enterprise only feature then? Or would the tag be usable in Standard? (You do realise that

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Rick Root
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: Don't debate - do. I agree. I was pretty much drooling at the thought of CFTHREAD when Vince talked about it at CFUNITED. rick ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Andy Allan
You'll make lots of CF Std people happy and you'll probably gets lots of beer out it too :) That would be the clincher for me lol On 18/07/06, dcooper @ macromedia. com dcooper @ macromedia. com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure, TBD :) (don't need to stinkin hell raining down on me! :) Let

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Vince Bonfanti
Cool--you guys are good! Then it should only take you another day to implement abstract CFCs and CFC interfaces (both fully supported--not open source projects--in BD 7.0). And adding support for the null keyword and IsNull function (more BD 7.0 features) could probably be done before lunch;

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Rick Root
Vince Bonfanti wrote: Cool--you guys are good! Then it should only take you another day to implement abstract CFCs and CFC interfaces (both fully supported--not open source projects--in BD 7.0). And adding support for the null keyword and IsNull function (more BD 7.0 features) could

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Dave Watts
Cool--you guys are good! Then it should only take you another day to implement abstract CFCs and CFC interfaces (both fully supported--not open source projects--in BD 7.0). And adding support for the null keyword and IsNull function (more BD 7.0 features) could probably be done before

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Mandel
I just posted up my asyncHTTP caller (asyncronous GET and POST requests). http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=asynchttp.index I've yet to do a blog post on it, but it's very straight forward. Drop the lib in your webroot (or mapping), create a new asyncHTTP CFC, and then run the get() or

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Vince Bonfanti
First, my apologies for the snooty tone of my previous message (I somehow can't seem to avoid shooting myself in the foot in public--it must be a personality flaw). To answer your question: no, BD 7.0 has not been released publicly yet. The public beta is planned to begin soon, as announced at

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-18 Thread Dave Watts
First, my apologies for the snooty tone of my previous message (I somehow can't seem to avoid shooting myself in the foot in public--it must be a personality flaw). Personally, I always attempt to consciously discount the tone of email messages, since it's so easy to misinterpret that. To

Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-17 Thread Paul Fraser
I am aware (somewhat!) of the asynchronous Web services capability with CFCs in ColdFusion. What would listers recommend if I simply want to call a ColdFusion action page asynchronously. The asychronous call is a one-way trip and does not require data back to the caller. Here's the scenario

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-17 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 17 July 2006 16:07, Paul Fraser wrote: I would prefer to not go the CFC route, but I am open to persuasion. The poor mans version could fire off a CFHTTP request to a page to do the heavy lifting, and then print the 'all OK' message. -- Tom Chiverton

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-17 Thread Rick Root
Tom Chiverton wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 16:07, Paul Fraser wrote: I would prefer to not go the CFC route, but I am open to persuasion. The poor mans version could fire off a CFHTTP request to a page to do the heavy lifting, and then print the 'all OK' message. That wouldn't be

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-17 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
That wouldn't be asynchronous though. Because his page would wait for the CFHTTP to complete. One alternative would be to call a cfm file in an iframe, and then use javascript to redirect the main page. The request in the inline from would continue to run even though the browser isn't attached

RE: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-17 Thread Ryan, Terrence
I posted a different solution here: http://www.numtopia.com/terry/blog/archives/2006/07/asynchronous_cfml_wi thout_a_gateway.cfm It does require using a cfc though. Terrence Ryan Senior Systems Programmer Wharton Computing and Information Technology E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-17 Thread Vince Bonfanti
Hmmm...sounds like a perfect use of the new CFTHREAD tag in BD 7.0: http://blog.newatlanta.com/index.cfm?mode=entryentry=152A1ECC-B7C2-5C0D-4269B203A722C055 Vince Bonfanti New Atlanta Communications, LLC I am aware (somewhat!) of the asynchronous Web services capability with CFCs in

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-17 Thread James Holmes
Can you just use AJAX and specify a dummy return function? On 7/17/06, Paul Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am aware (somewhat!) of the asynchronous Web services capability with CFCs in ColdFusion. What would listers recommend if I simply want to call a ColdFusion action page

Re: Low-tech asychronous call to ColdFusion

2006-07-17 Thread Mark Mandel
In about 2 days I've got a really light weight Asyncronous HTTP caller lib coming out. It allows you to make asyncronous GET and POST requests to any given URL. I haven't finished writing up the documentation for my website, but contact me offlist if you want a copy, and I can walk you through