ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 hosting to work with Flex 2

Posted on September 27, 2006 | Comments Off

I have not been following who is providing the latest ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 hosting, but its important if you are trying to use Flex 2′s RPC services.

I picked up a google news alert that says “CrystalTech Offering ColdFusion MX 7 Web Hosting With Adobe Flex 2″.  You can find the news article at http://www.tophosts.com/articles/003859.html

The real question is will people understand Flex 2 hosting.  It is Flex Data Services (FDS) that requires a server and supports all three features of Flex’s data access.  The three features are remote procedure calls (RPC) services, data management services, and message services.  ColdFusion connectivity which is defaulted into ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 server is what gives Flex 2 standalone swf’s the ability to use RPC services calls to ColdFusion.

Hopefully people will understand the different server side requirements to run many Flex 2 applications and not gripe about some application not working on some old hosting company.

Either way its good to see more and more hosting companies trying to support the newer versions of ColdFusion and Flex.