Macromedia coldfusion mx 7.0.2-using coldfusion mx with flex 2 Benutzerhandbuch

CHAPTER 2

Using the Flex Messaging
Event Gateway

You can develop an application that uses the Flex Messaging gateway type to send messages to
and receive messages from an Adobe Flex application. To do so, you configure the Flex
Messaging gateway. This document provides information about how to write and test an
application that uses the event gateway.

You should be familiar with ColdFusion event gateway in ColdFusion MX Developer’s Guide.
This document also assumes that you are familiar with Adobe Flex Data Services.

Contents

About Flex and ColdFusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Configuring a Flex Messaging event gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Enabling communication with Flex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Sending outgoing messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Handling incoming messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Using session and client variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Data translation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Macromedia ColdFusion MX Standard Edition does not support event gateways.