Writing AS3.0 code that runs on ColdFusion, I think it would be a great idea

I saw this cool blog post today http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2007/10/16/the-rhino-is-coming-to-fix-cfml/ it's prompted me to request something I have been thinking about for a while now.

Adobe, please bring AS3.0 to the next version of ColdFusion

Comments

[Tom Chiverton]

Why ? What problem does it solve ?

[kai]

Tom, the Rhino "solution" is just a proof-of-concept and I agree it doesn't solve a particular technical problem. That being said, running AS 3 on CF (officially built and supported by Adobe) is interesting though as it would allow to build RIAs end-to-end on Adobe technology using one language instead of 3.5ish (MXML, AS 3, CFML, CFScript).

[Gareth Edwards]

Maybe Adobe should just expand cfscript so that you can create cfscript component files (.cfs or something)... and allow imports for extra functionality?

Something like... ?

/*** person.cfs ***/

public class mycomponent {

import coldfusion.query.*;

function abc (){

}

}

[Tim Lucas]

I remember asking the final panel at WebDU 06 "AS is getting all the prog language love, but CFML/cfscript is crap. What's happening with it from a development language POV" to which I got blank faces. Switching to an AS3 dev model with access to all the CF bits (remoting, datasources, PDF, etc) and having CFML as the templating language would make so much sense.