Yes it’s finally done! No really!
Update: The article is now live and can be found here
Part 2 will be on Adobe.com Monday 16th 2007! This article went through more twists and turns then expected. In short, I built a fully functioning Flex 2/ColdFusion/Verity document search application. The problem was that to walk a reader through line by line and explain how everything was working would have resulted in a 100 page book!
While still explaining how to call the CFC and handle a result from Verity, I didn’t get into detail explaining all the other Flex 2 features that are used such as:
- Array Collections
- Shared Objects
- Action Script Value Objects
- Custom Events
- Dispatching Custom Events
- Drag & Drop
- Item Renderer’s
While relevant to how the entire app works, getting into explaining them would have resulted very large article with parts 1 – 8!
I assume there will be questions, and I will be more then happy to answer them here.
This was to demonstrate how Flex 2 could provide a cool interface for searching Verity collections. I plan on building this app out further as there is so much more that can be done. I actually have another version of this app that uses best practices that were not used in the article as it would just have added more to explain. The point was to show an example as easy as possible, not get into best practices.
I will be posting a new version of the application here on the blog that you are free to use in your own environments. There are many features that are missing from the sample application that I am very excited to add in.
If you have any features that you would like to see added please let me know and I will try to incorporate them.
Update: The article is now live and can be found here
