I don't know "what" I was thinking but I decided to "upgrade"
to Coldfusion 8 with Livecycle Data Services
and try out my Flex apps to see if they still worked with
messaging.... NOT !
The so-called "simple" upgrade to use CF8's embedded
LifeCycle Data Services has turned into a nightmare !
Problem 1: After setting up the ColdFusionGateway for
messaging and compiling the application, it just didn't work, and
after Googling around, plenty of folks were having problems, and
they suggested downloading and installing the 2.0.1 hotfix, so I
did.
Problem 2: Now the debugger gives you errors about
"overriding the subtopic". What ? I don't even have subtopics in my
messaging..... so after hours of more Googling and finding MANY
other people who were having the same problem, a couple of people
suggested "remove the library reference to fds.swc from your
project because Flex still puts it in there", so I did.
Problem 3: Now it doesn't complain about overriding subtopics
anymore, but on startup the faultHandler for the Producer
throws an error about the application needing "FlexClient"
support and me needing to recompile the application. What ?
I just installed the hotfix SDK and created a new project
just to make sure there wasn't anything lingering around, and
deleted the fds.swc from the project (if you don't, you go
back to getting the override errors). This sucks !
On a side note, if I ignore the faulthandler's message and
send the message, I can see by the CF8 administrator
that the gateway is in fact receiving the message from Flex
and is returning a message back from CF8, which however
never gets to the Flex app.
Too bad I didn't just stay with a STABLE Flex 2.0.1 / CF7.02/
FDS2 environment ! This is now a complete mess...
