Building a webservice in Coldfusion9 and ASP.NET

a look at opposing camps

Hi, I'm Eric Fickes

Work : Lead Technologist @ Wiretree.com

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A tale of two web stacks

ADOBE 

FX+

{ CLOUD } +

IIS 7+

Coldfusion9 +

Hibernate +

MySQL

MICROSOFT

SL +

{ CLOUD } +

IIS 7+

ASP.NET+

nHibernate +

MySQL

K.I.S.S. get's you CRUD webservicesCREATE - Create a new video object in the database  READ - Return a collection of custom class Video to the client UPDATE - Update video record

DELETE – Remove video record

Starting at the bottom, the database

MySQL 5x - one table to power them all!

ORM you glad Adobe didn't say banana?

nHibernate was not as simple

Coldfusion9 Webservice CFC

ASP.NET Webservice ASMX

Let's look at some code

and maybe a demo

Coldfusion tips

• Don't forget to enable Flash Remoting ( CFAdmin )• Enable Robust Exception Information ( CFAdmin )• Build your code in a standalone test.cfm file• Refactor code into your CFC and enable output• You can test code in test.cfm• Then final testing in your Flex client • CFDUMP is your friend• Loading your webservice.cfc shows you classdocs• Install TamperData Firefox Addon

ASP.NET tips

• You can test your webservices in your browser!!! • nHibernate IList collections need to be wrapped • Silverlight needs clientaccess.xml and crossdomain.xml files

for webservices just like flash does.• If you want Remoting, but not .NET remoting, use WebORB• C# is awesome• Install TamperData Firefox Addon

Thank You

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