Archive for May, 2008

Data Push with CFTHREAD and LiveCycle DS

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

There’s an old demonstration we used to show for Flex Data Services, now LiveCycle DS, that pushed data from the server to the client to be charted. More modern incarnations of this can still be found as samples included with LiveCycle DS and BlazeDS (Trader Desktop). The original incarnation was great fun to show, but I never really liked the workflow of getting the data feed started and stopped. Old habits die hard, and I used that dislike as an excuse to explore the new CFTHREAD feature of ColdFusion 8 in conjunction with the included LiveCycle DS instance for data push.
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