CFDJ Article - Flash Remoting vs. Web Services

I recently finished another article for ColdFusion Developer’s Journal (September 2004 issue) that discusses the pros and cons of Flash Remoting and Web Services. This article was inspired by a development project at work where we re-wrote our portal in Flash over a six week period. Let me tell you what a huge task that was and you can read more about it when I get the blog entry posted. Back to the article, it’s a brief overview of the two approaches and I recommend reading it if you’re investigating Web Services or Flash Remoting for your project.

When it comes down to it, Flash Remoting outperforms Web Services when dealing with complex objects and large datasets. Obviously Flash Remoting isn’t free, unless you’re a ColdFusion developer….why wouldn’t you be? I can’t go into full details about the article but I will post a link to it once it goes live. You’ll probably only get the first couple of pages and then they’ll ask you to subscribe on-line. Or please feel free to purchase a copy of the print magazine at your local Barnes and Noble. If you’re like me then you probably won’t care about the article and just want an example and source code….

File Browser Example
File Browser Source Code

Enjoy!

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