Tom Jordahl has been a Principal Engineer at Allaire/Macromedia for over six years and has spent the last two years on the front lines of Web services. He is one of the implementers of Apache Axis and is the Macromedia representative on the W3C Web Service Description WSDL 1.2 working group. Before getting involved in Web services, he was the technical lead for the ColdFusion on UNIX products. Tom is currently "back home" working on ColdFusion.
Event gateways are an exciting, new feature in Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7
that arose from one simple idea: that there are many applications out there
that aren't part of the Web and don't communicate through the HTTP protocol.
These applications are on all types of devices. They run the gamut from the
ubiquitous instant messaging clients to SMS on mobile phones to new things
that haven't even been invented yet. ColdFusion does a great job powering
applications that run on the Web -why not power non-Web applications too? Not
only should it be possible for ColdFusion developers to write applications
for non-Web applications and devices, but it should be easier to write them
in ColdFusion than any other way.
ColdFusion MX 7 ships with several exciting types of event gateways that make
it easy for you to get off the ground running with things like SMS. The
server contai... (more)
Get a detailed look at how ColdFusion MX can open up the world of Web
services for you. You will see what makes Web services useful for your Web
applications. Find out how to use a Web service from CFML with just a single
tag! Find out how to publish a Web service by changing a single attribute in
your existing CFML code! Learn what all the acronyms mean (or don't mean)
and what emerging specifications are important for you. In addition, you will
get inside info on how ColdFusion MX uses Apache Axis to support its Web
services functionality.
Topics to be covered:
Why Use Web ... (more)
Tom Jordahl has been a Principal Engineer at Allaire/Macromedia for over six years and has spent the last two years on the front lines of Web services. He is one of the implementers of Apache Axis and is the Macromedia representative on the W3C Web Service Description WSDL 1.2 working group. Before getting involved in Web services, he was the technical lead for the ColdFusion on UNIX products. Tom is currently "back home" working on ColdFusion.
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