Oct 02, 2007
Posted On : 10/02/2007 at 4:56 PM | Posted By : Remote Synthesis
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ColdFusion,
Adobe AIR
In the sneak peak for ColdFusion, Hemant Khandewal shows how Coldfusion can create an offline/online AIR application using the next version of ColdFusion. Despite some initial technical difficulties, he shows an application built using the new Coldfusion 8 CFAjax tags.
Hemant wants to convert the application to an AIR application and make it available in an offline mode. Offline submission of data would synchronize when the person returns online. He does this by adding a cfairaccess tag to the page. ColdFusion then generates all the code for the AIR application to store all its data into the local database, and then the page is saved as HTML and compiled into an HTML/JavaScript AIR application with the full functionality retained.
Lastly, Hemant demonstrates how offline data is sent to the sever. This uses a coldfusion.air.submitForm function. Once this is done, when a person is in offline mode the data is put into an unsent items. Once the person gets back into online mode, the data is synchronized by being sent to the server.
This is great news in my opinion for the future of ColdFusion and deeper integration with AIR, which is an obvious priority for Adobe.
Wow. This sounds very intriguing. Any word on when it would be released?
Posted By
Sam Farmer / Posted on 10/02/2007 at 5:27 PM
Nope, no word at all. However, considering 8 just came out, I put this at least a couple years down the road unfortunately unless there is some sort of major interim release.
Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 10/03/2007 at 5:14 AM
I'm going to guess that we'll see this in a point release later this year. Tying CF to AIR is an important step for Adobe, and I think we'll see the capability sooner, rather than later.
Err - or early next year. I forgot it's October already!
I thought it was a fugly hack - he saved a generated page from the browser, for heaven's sake!!
@Sean, I agree somewhat but my thought on that was 1) we *just* got CF8 and I wouldn't expect more than a POC at this point; 2) I can't imagine this is the end-result workflow they will release. The important thing to me is that this is not only on their radar but actually in some form of active development.
Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 10/04/2007 at 5:48 AM
