Date: Dec. 17, 2002
Link: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/articles/remoting.html
Source Author or Organization: Kevin Towes, Pangaea NewMedia Inc., Macromedia ColdFusion MX Application Development Center

This tutorial on using Flash MX with ColdFusion MX shows the user how to employ a Web service to query, drill down ond display data. The real work is done by Flash Remoting, an XML-based Remote Procedure Call (RPC) technology that lets Flash MX invoke methods on Web services, JavaBeans, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), Active Server Pages (ASP), ColdFusion pages and various other ColdFusion, .NET and Java resources.

First the tutorial shows the user how to build a small database and make it a web service by setting up a ColdFusion Component (CFC). Next a Flash application is made that will consume the Web service by calling methods in the CFC via ActionScript. Finally the user learns to use Flash MX User Interface (UI) Components to build a graphical interface that will display, drill down and query the data as the user manipulates the components.