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After installing Flex on my VMWare Windows XP, I still could not connect to the ColdFusion server on my Mac and ended up installing ColdFusion on XP (although this was not the approach I wanted to take). My XP’s limited resources would probably get fully consumed by CF + FlexBuilder and also I wouldn’t be able to work on the CF files with Coda (it is possible but not the ideal way) so I looked around some more and found this post that showed how to fix the “Could not contact RDS server” issue. Editing the XML file solved my connection issue and once that was solved, I proceeded with Ben Forta’s example of building a Flex powered application that uses Coldfusion.
Once that was done, I continued with the example application that Ray presented at InsideRIA using ORM. This was interesting and it was interesting to see how the ORM works but that subject is worthy of a blog category of its own. Until I play around with it more and figure out how easy/hard it is to manipulate the data with finer control, I remain a skeptic.
By now, I have figured out how to get the Flex/CF to work on my Mac and I can return to using the FlexBuilder on the Mac (sans the Coldfusion/Flex builder wizard). Thank goodness, because the build time on the VMWare Windows XP was taking a while.
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