Flex is to ActionScript as ColdFusion is to Java
Thursday, May 15th, 2008I was just thinking this morning… [ frightening, I know ] but anyway, I was thinking about ColdFusion and why some people don’t like it…and I think really it’s because they don’t get it.
If you’ve used Flex2 or Flex3, you know how EASY those MXML tags make writing ActionScript. I mean, if you understand ActionScript and have a good handle on the documentation and a little experience, you can write anything for the FlashPlayer in pure ActionScript and many people do. But if you’ve used Flex you know how EASY it is to write ActionScript code using MXML that compiles down to pure ActionScript.
Well, ColdFusion is really the same thing for Java. Does not all ColdFuion CF tags compile down to Java classes? So if you know Java, you “could” write the whole back end in Java, but why wouldn’t you use ColdFusion when it makes it so EASY??
And just like you can mix and match pure ActionScript code with MXML (in some predefined ways) you can mix and match ColdFusion with Java code (in some predefined ways).
Anyway, I know that is nothing new to most of you, but for relative newcomers like myself, it is like a beautiful awareness ![]()
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