One of the most powerful new features available in ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise
that many ColdFusion developers might not yet be using is event gateways.
Event gateways open up entirely new possibilities for ColdFusion and allow
our ColdFusion applications to communicate with more or less any other
Internet-enabled system even if the system doesn't communicate via the
"traditional" HTTP protocol.
CFMX 7 Enterprise ships with a few gateways to get you started, such as an
SMS gateway for communicating with mobile devices, a directory watcher
gateway, a socket gateway, a Java Message Service (JMS) gateway, and
Jabber/XMMP as well as Lotus Sametime IM gateways, so you have a lot of
possibilities right out of the box.
If you don't need the specific functionality offered by the... (more)
Last month I introduced you to the wonderful world of building Rich Internet
Applications with Macromedia Flex ("Flex Your ColdFusion Muscles," CFDJ, Vol.
6, issue 12) and discussed some of the distinct advantages RIAs have over
traditional HTML applications.
This month I'd like to go a bit deeper and discuss how Flex can give users a
much better experience through its powerful interactiv... (more)
On New Year's Eve, 2004 I declared 2005 to be the "year of object-oriented
programming for ColdFusion developers," and since the year is approaching its
final quarter it's a good time to focus our attention on OOP in ColdFusion
and see how we're doing.
Based on talking with developers both in person and virtually, reading blogs,
and looking at some of the newer ColdFusion code that people... (more)
Over the past couple of months I've been introducing you to some of the
fantastic possibilities Macromedia Flex offers for building Rich Internet
Applications (RIAs) with ColdFusion ("Flex Your ColdFusion Muscles," CFDJ
Vol. 6, issue 12 and "Data Presentation with Macromedia Flex," CFDJ Vol. 7,
issue 1), and I hope you've been motivated to begin experimenting with Flex
yourself.
What I ... (more)
It's all Simon's fault.
We say this to all framework writers who, even now, are trying to recover
from the task assigned them by CFDJ's editor-in-chief: provide an article and
an implementation of the Macromedia Pet Market application in their chosen
framework.
Realizing that our first sentence might not serve as sufficient explanation
for those weary framework authors, allow us to provi... (more)
Matt Woodward is Principal Information Technology Specialist with the Office of the Sergeant at Arms at the United States Senate. He was until recently a Web application developer for i2 Technologies in Dallas, Texas. A Macromedia Certified ColdFusion Developer and a member of Team Macromedia, he has been using ColdFusion since 1996. In addition to his ColdFusion work, Matt also develops in Java and PHP.
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