[Laszlo-announce] Upcoming Presentation: Laszlo and WebOrb, Alternatives for CFML/Flash Integration

[Amy Muntz]

We're going to be announcing upcoming events from the User Community. 
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---  Announcement ---

Charlie Arehart, of New Atlanta Communications, will be presenting 
"Laszlo and WebOrb, Alternatives for CFML/Flash Integration" at upcoming 
Cold Fusion User Groups:

9/28/2005: San Diego, CA San Diego Cold Fusion User Group 
<http://www.sdcfug.org/> (/http://www.sdcfug.org//)
10/5/2005: Atlanta, GA Atlanta Cold Fusion User Group 
<http://acfug.org/> (/http://acfug.org//)
10/10/2005: Denver, CO Denver Cold Fusion User Group 
<http://www.denvercfug.org/> (/http://www.denvercfug.org//)
10/26/2005: Phoenix, AZ Phoenix Cold Fusion User Group 
<http://www.azcfug.org/> /(http://www.azcfug.org/)/
<http://www.azcfug.org/>
See his blog for more information: 
http://bluedragon.blog-city.com/several_upcoming_cfugs_not_just_talking_about_bluedragon.htm 


The abstract for the presentation is below.


      Laszlo and WebOrb, Alternatives for CFML/Flash Integration

CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart will set aside his BlueDragon hat for a 
discussion about two new (and free) tools that will be of interest to 
users of both ColdFusion and BlueDragon.

First, he'll introduce Laszlo, which is an xml-based mechanism for 
generating Flash components and pages. Sound like Flex? It's quite 
similar, and predates it. In its latest 3.0 version, formally called 
OpenLaszlo and now open source, it adds many useful new features and 
solves some challenges previously held against it. It can integrate 
effectively with CFML and CFCs on both CF and BlueDragon (as well as 
ASP.NET, JSPs, PHP and more).

Next, he'll introduce WebOrb. Some may know it formerly as FlashOrb, and 
as an alternative Flash Remoting gateway. In its new incarnation, WebOrb 
2.0, it goes well beyond Flash Remoting to also add Ajax support. It 
also adds support for calling CFCs both directly and as web services, 
and it can integrate with ASP.NET and Java objects as well. WebOrb comes 
in both a Standard edition which is free for most commercial uses and a 
Professional edition.