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January 12, 2007

Coldfusion 7.0.2 added flex feature support, hence you can access your cfc service from flex app. See a good article by Kyle about how this works at here.

The above article described how to access cfc using RemoteObject in flex app when your cfc and mxml pages are both on the same Coldfusion server. If you have your cfc services in an existing Coldfusion app, and you want to create new flex app on a remote server, how do you access the existing cfc services now? Here we will go through the steps to make that configuration work.

The reason the example works in above article is because CF 7.0.2 implemented gateway to access AMF, and by default a destination/channel is defined in CF app WEB-INF/flex/services-config.xml. When running the flex app on a remote server, we will need to use flex app gateway instead, and configure destination/channel in the flex app.

Let us use the example in the above article http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/helloworld.html, download helloworld_cfc.zip to your machine.

1. Extract HelloWorld.cfc to your Coldfusion app root. For me, it is C:\flex\jrun4\servers\cfusion\cf702. Here, cfusion is a server instance, /cf702 is the context root. It uses port 8300.

2. Extract folder HelloWorld_ro to your flex app root. For me, it is C:\flex\jrun4\servers\default\samples2, default is a server instance, /samples2 is the context root. It uses port 8700.

3. Copy the following and Paste it into your flex app WEB-INF/flex/remoting-config.xml, inside the <service> tag, parallel to other destination tag.

<destination id=”ColdFusion”><channels> <channel ref=”my-cfamf”/> </channels> <properties> <source>*</source> </properties> </destination>

4. Copy the following and Paste into your flex app\’s WEB-INF/flex/services-config.xml, inside <channels> tag, parallel to other channel-definition.

<channel-definition id=”my-cfamf” class=”mx.messaging.channels.AMFChannel”> <endpoint uri=”http://{server.name}:{server.port}{context.root}/flex2gateway/” class=”flex.messaging.endpoints.AMFEndpoint”/> <properties> <polling-enabled>false</polling-enabled> <serialization> <instantiate-types>false</instantiate-types> </serialization> </properties> </channel-definition>

5. Define your endpoint. You can configure the destination in servicees-config.xml. See above channel-definition you just added. You can change uri=”http://{server.name}:{server.port}{context.root}/flex2gateway/” to point to your real server name and port. For this example, it is http://linIp:8300/cf702/flex2gateway.

Or you can override it in your RemoteObject tag:

<mx:RemoteObject endpoint=”http://linIp:8300/cf702/flex2gateway/”
id=”myService”
destination=”ColdFusion”
source=”HelloWorld”><mx:method name=”sayHelloString” result=”handleStringResult(event)” fault=”Alert.show(event.fault.message)” /></mx:RemoteObject>

6. Make sure both Coldfusion and flex server are running.

7. run HelloWorld_ro.mxml either from flex builder or by request
http://localhost:8700/samples/HelloWorld_ro/ HelloWorld_ro.mxml,
you should see a button with label "get String Remote Object", click on it, you should see "Hello World!" displayed on top of the button.

8. If you are using standalone Coldfusion with default install, then put HelloWorld.cfc under C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot. Note the context root now is /. If you are using port 8500 for this server, then your endpoint would be:
endpoint=”http://linIp:8500/flex2gateway/”

Note, step 3 to step 6 is to configure channel in the configuration files. You can also assign channels on the client at run time by creating a ChannelSet object that contains one or more Channel objects, and assigning the ChannelSet to a service componen. See flex doc for details.

 

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