| Flash application services are new to ColdFusion MX and Flash MX. Flash application services allow seamless communication between ColdFusion MX Server and Flash. This means you can quickly create a rich Flash MX application interface that uses ColdFusion Server to access databases and perform processing. Creating the application interface with Flash MX means you have far fewer browser version and compatibility issues to worry about. In addition, you can build Flash MX interfaces for other devices (such as Windows CE handheld computers and PDAs) and still use ColdFusion Server as the backend processor. You can find examples of Flash application services under the Code Examples section of ColdFusion Administrator. A sample data-driven Flash application is shown in Figure 3. Figure 3. A data-driven Flash application. |