Flex and ColdFusion "They're in the Game..."

Posted At : July 17, 2007 2:11 PM
Related Categories: Adobe,Site Performance,Flash,Flex,IT in General,ColdFusion

I recently assisted XOSTechnologies, Inc. in clustering their ColdFusion servers with a bit of development to support a site they engineered with a full Flex 2.0 front end utilizing Flash Remoting (AMF) to ColdFusion 7.0.2 cfcs (ColdFusion talking to Oracle). ColdFusion processes are monitored by SeeFusion.

The site was built to support the EA Sports gaming community and their release of some of the most dynamic sports gaming software to date. The site is a social community which allots for picture and video upload as well as messaging, forums, and that's not all. You should check it out at EA Sports World.

For details on their infrastructure as they are "doing it right" feel free to send me an email.

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Very cool - do you know how many developers and how long time it took to make the site ?
# Posted By Mikkel Johansen | 7/17/07 2:53 PM
Hi Mikkel, I believe they have quite a few developers, somewhere between 6 to 12. They built the version of the site that went public this past weekend in under 3 months (try that in something other than flex and cf right?)... They were busy though 8-). I am told there is much more to follow as this is the premier site in which EA will be releasing such games.
# Posted By Strikefish | 7/17/07 3:04 PM
Hi,

I clicked on 'new' player, then clicked the back button and it didn't put me back to the previous 'page'.
# Posted By Patrick Whittingham | 7/17/07 5:52 PM
it took a long time for the whole 'page' to load for me, and then there was a missing image under the main menu.

You'd think with all the styling they did on the inside they would have sprung for the cost of styling a new progress bar when the app first loads.

All in all, still very cool.
# Posted By Scott Stroz | 7/17/07 7:35 PM
Hi, Flex 2.0 supports the back button but it is not implemented on the site currently. It is my opinion that back button arguments do not hold water like they used to with RIA and Web 2.0, especially if the application is engineered correctly. With regard to flex 3.0 I have validated that deep linking will be supported as well (another flash/flex argument), so search engine concerns will go away. Most sites that ultimately become what they are, myspace, google, ebay, amazon are due more to electrical undercurrents facilitated through mass media, word of mouth, buzz... not search engines.
# Posted By Strikefish | 7/17/07 7:56 PM
I hear you Scott, when I mentioned I did "a bit" of coding, that was it. A customized preloader, I am told it will be implemented shortly. Thanks.
# Posted By Strikefish | 7/17/07 7:58 PM
I notice that lately there is a trend to have customized scrollbars in full flash/flex sites, which can be nice to avoid the browser chrome, but is mostly implemented badly -> it does not support the scrollwheel! (on mac the flash player does not support it for sure, I did not test this one on windows)
While it is a surplus to have the scrollbars in the same look of the site, imo it does not weight against the loss of functionality! Implemented in this way it will fastly become another argument against flash/flex argument.
As said, flash player does not support the scrollwheel on mac, but there are workarounds thru javascript, which a site of this calibre should have looked into.
# Posted By g10 | 7/18/07 9:26 AM
g10, I can't speak for Mac as I don' t have one up and running currently. But, I tested on IE/Windows and you have to click on the swf so it initially gets focus to enable scrollwheel. Works great. I am surprised to hear that flash doesn't support it on Mac. Thanks for your comments.
# Posted By Strikefish | 7/18/07 9:51 AM
Hi Jeff,
the solution is here:
http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/2006/11/08/flash/swfm...

till flash 8 it was not supported for mac for sure (hence, at that time macs did only have 1 mouse button ;)
I did not check it in flash9 / as3 / flex2 if it is supported now, but as this site is flex2 I have a slight feeling it isnt yet
# Posted By g10 | 7/18/07 10:25 AM
Thanks for sharing g10! Great read from pixelbreaker!
# Posted By Strikefish | 7/18/07 2:42 PM
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