Simeon Says

I was pretty excited about this new functionality when I saw Ben Forta present on it at the Seattle CFUG last month. I thought it was pretty amazing how easy it was to send messages from ColdFusion to FES. Ben showed us his simple messaging app as well as his session tracker. I couldnt wait to build something myself.

Well the first step was getting one of Ben’s apps working locally on my machine. Normally I wouldnt think twice about this but as i am doing all my testing on my mac there is alway a bit of mystery. Anyway, I choose to set up his simple cf to flex message app. It didnt take much work at all to get this working.

My next step was to test sending messages from flex back to cf. Here i had a bit more trouble. After working several hours with config files and visiting with my buddy jared about it. The solution was quite unimpressive. In setting up the communication from cf and flex you have to enable the ColdfusionGateway destination in flex-messaging-service.xml. In this one of the options is to specify your gateway id and gatewayhost. haveing gatewayID = * and the gatewayhost commented out I was able to recieve messages in flex but not send. In order to send messages from flex to cf it required that the gatewayid = the actual name of the gateway you created in cfadmin. Also in order for the rmi to bind correctly, I found that the gatewayhost had to be set to 127.0.0.1 . My config file looks like this now.

With the abilty to communicate between flex anc cf (in real time) at hand, I decided to undertake a project. Stay tuned for more information on flexMessage. My Flex Enterprise Services interface for Google Talk.