Summary

That's ityou've done it! You have created your first Flash Remoting application. Select Test Movie and click away! Upon testing your application, you should notice the following events:

• "….connection successful" should display in the title text field for a few seconds.

• "ColdFusion's Country Eggs" should display in the title text field.

• "ColdFusion's Country Eggs" description, price, and image should display in the text fields and loader.

• Selecting a new menu item should display its description and image.

Some important things to remember:

• Plan carefully.

• Import the Remoting classes.

• Test for a connection before writing a lot of code.

• Use the FaultEvent class; this can help if problems occur.

• If you create a "site" in Dreamweaver MX or later, you can easily connect to your ColdFusion datasource and create a CFC.

Flash Remoting is a dynamic product that can enhance your Flash movies and applications. This chapter is a brief overview on Flash Remoting. I recommend that you visit http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashremoting for more documentation, tutorials, and articles.