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ColdFusion MX: A Web Service Example

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:15:00 EST

From the first day the Internet was conceived, its primary goal was to allow people to access information stored on remote computers. Over the last couple of years, the technology of Web services has evolved not only to enhance accessing this information, but to share it as well.

Making Headlines

Wed, 19 May 2004 00:00:00 EDT

In Part 1 of this two-part article (MXDJ, Vol. 2, issue 3) I showed how to invoke a Web service for the purpose of validating user input. Part 2 will delve a little deeper into the ColdFusion MX language structure specifically designed to handle XML result sets such as those returned from a Web service. The goal is to consume a Web service that will return headline news articles for a user-specified topic.

ColdFusion MX: A Web Services Example

Tue, 02 Mar 2004 00:00:00 EST

Sorting Multidimensional Arrays

Wed, 15 Oct 2003 00:00:00 EDT

In my last article we looked at how to sort multidimensional arrays by creating a second single-dimensional array that is used as a key. The focus of this article is how to sort multidimensional arrays by creating a query object that can be sorted in the same way you would an ordered result set from a database.

Sorting Multidimensional Arrays

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:00:00 EDT

One of the most common requests made by users when they see data displayed on a Web page is that they want to be able to view the information sorted by columns. Working with a database makes this request fairly simple; working with arrays is, or at least was, a problem.