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As we have seen, the CFDIV tag creates an Ajax area and also fetches markup for that area through the bind expression. The CFAJAXPROXY is the other important tag that makes Ajax easy by invoking logic on the server side to fetch data.
CFAJAXPROXY creates a JavaScript proxy object for the CFC. Effectively, the CFC now [...]

Let us try to understand the concept of binds in Ajax controls through an example.
Say I got to build a simple Ajax application that takes the ISBN of a particular book and fetches the details of the book back to me from the server.
Something like,
Enter ISBN:
Get Book Details here:
Enter the ISBN,
Enter ISBN: 1
Get Book [...]

If you ask me to pick up my best Ajax functionality in ColdFusion 8, it would undoubtedly be the Ajax Plumbing support. Irrespective of whether you have existing application built on certain framework or you intend to build an application from scratch, you will surely love or at the least look forward to use the [...]

Before getting into the details of JSON Support available in ColdFusion 8 let us first understand what JSON is about and its importance in the Ajax World.

JSON stand for JavaScript Object Notation. It is just another data format like XML. But the representation of the data is entirely based on JavaScript syntax. [...]

The entire Ajax functionality in ColdFusion 8 can be divided into three distinct layers that sit on top of the other.

I will post about each of these levels in detail. At the lower most level we have the JSON support wherein we can convert ColdFusion Objects into its JSON representation and convert JSON representation [...]

This post will serve as an introduction to the basic Ajax concepts.

Let us first see how a traditional or rather a non-Ajax web application works.

The earlier version of Yahoo! Mail fits into this category of traditional web application. In such an application when you hit on a link, say the “Inbox” link, [...]

I will start off with some posts that should provide an overview of the entire Ajax functionality that is available in ColdFusion 8. I did talk about the topics that I will be discussing here at CFUnited. But posting about the topics here will set the right context for further discussions/posts.

I initially thought of just uploading the mail application that I showed and talked about at CFUnited. But realized that writing and discussing the application in every detail under different posts would be a very interesting both for those who attended my talk as well as those who could not. It would also be a [...]