A Flash-Forward Look

 
May 08, 2002
Another analysis of Studio MX, this time concentrating on Macromedia's strategy with Flash and ColdFusion, and more particularly, how the new MX products work together to attract both developers and designers. The point, Jon Udell seems to be saying, is universal compatibility and portability of Web applications.

The article also emphasize a new feature of Studio MX: an architecture called "Flash Remoting." Udell describes this as "a carefully chosen mix of open and proprietary protocols. Through a gateway that's included in ColdFusion MX, and will also be made available separately, Flash clients can use remote components. These include native ColdFusion services, which deliver the highest levels of abstraction (that is, data-bound controls), and also generic Web services. In both cases, the gateway handles basic plumbing such as proxy generation and data marshalling." These new uses of Flash with ColdFusion are just one more tool in the ColdFusion programmer's toolbox.

See the article below for more of Udell's comments on Macromedia's strategy with Flash and ColdFusion MX.

A Flash-Forward Look (Infoworld, May 3, 2002)


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