12.10 What to Walk Away With

I've isolated the sections in this chapter into 10 items that you should remember when building your Flash Remoting applications:

• Clearly separate the tasks for the application.

• Clearly separate and optimize the functionality between client, server, and database.

• Handle server downtime (lack of a connection) gracefully.

• Use components wisely.

• Maintain a clean API.

• Optimize your loops and other code blocks that are executed repeatedly.

• Use OOP or OOP concepts when possible.

• Use broadcasters or callback functions in your responder objects.

• Take advantage of incremental recordsets in ColdFusion.

• Cache objects from the server whenever possible ”on the client using a cache object or on the server using cachedwithin in ColdFusion or whatever caching functionality is at your disposal.