I just started looking into Backbase, but I sure like to see some examples from other CFers :-)

It would definitly help to get started up. Also keep in mind that Flex 2 is coming out soon (6 months) and it's easy to use for CF developers, much easier to intergrate then before! The lack on "Coldfusion support/demos" would be a big loss for this great product!

Michael
Certified CFMX 7, DW MX2004 and DW 8 developer ;)

While Coldfusion has integrated some real nice Ajax functionality into the language, I have experienced breakage when this is combined with other libraries such as the Yahoo YUI. I also encountered some problems when using the Google libraries, in particular the map API. Backbase has a vastly richer repertoire of widgets and functions and is very attractive to us for a variety of applications that are not reaedy for FLEX.

I found that integrating CF with Backbase is fairly straightforward given the many nice XML functions in the platform. The well documented PHP examples are very easy to translate into CF and I was in the process of implementing the data grid, among others.

It would be very nice if Backbase would provide the same level of documentation that is available for PHP as I am certain that many CF developers would use backbase.

Hi Neil,

of course we have an opinion on this ;-)

Clearly there is a good match between ColdFusion and Backbase, both being tag based, one client- and one server-side. And we are getting the message loud and clear that there is interest.

A dedicated discussion forum and some examples are certainly not asking too much. I will contact you by e-mail to check if we could work together.

BTW: I think we have a very competitive offering compared to both Microsoft Atlas and Macromedia Flex, both of which are probably a year away from release.

Regards,

Mark Schiefelbein
Product Manager, Backbase

Hi Mark

> BTW: I think we have a very competitive offering compared to
> both Microsoft Atlas and Macromedia Flex, both of which are > probably a year away from release.

What about pricing? I think Microsoft Atlas will be included with Visual Studio and Flex 2 will free. The Eclipse Plugin or the Eclipse based Flex Builder will cost less than 1000 USD.
I would expect Flex earlier than you, just the half of what you think.

Backbase looks really cool, but it's not in the price range for most of our clients. I would be happy to see something like the Flex Builder 2 pricing.

Reto

Brayan, shoot me an email (johncblandii ---at--- gmail.com) to discuss cfbackbase.com and my possible involvement. I'm a pure noob at Backbase, just checking it out for knowledge sake, but advanced in CF.

Thanks,

John C. Bland II

www.cfbackbase.com is starting to look good! i can't wait to see more, I just found backspace today. Haven't got a clue how to do anything with ajax but of course we all see where it can bring our applications. This looks sweet... For the most part I really don't want to spend half my day writing javascript.

I'm going to play around with backspace for a while and look forward to see what you got going on over at

If you have some demo apps and are going to cfunited maybe we could meet up in the internet cafe for some java!

Drop me a line if your going to cfunited.