ColdFusion, WDDX, and Flash
This tutorial is designed to illustrate the basic process of building dynamic Flash movies using ColdFusion, WDDX (Web Distributed Data Exchange), and an RDBMS (Relational Database Management System). During the tutorial, we'll build a sample application using Microsoft Access, ColdFusion, and Flash and in the end display database content in our Flash movie.

Writing ColdFusion Using CFScript
ColdFusion Markup Language is a tag-based server-side language. However, there are actually two ways to write ColdFusion code. The most common form of ColdFusion is in the form of tags like HTML, however, there exists another way to write ColdFusion. Less common than writing your code in tags (start tag and an accompanying end tag) is using CFScript. CFScript, similiar to other ECMA-compliant languages such as JavaScript, was first introduced in ColdFusion 4.0 and is seen as a more advanced way of scripting ColdFusion.

Serializing A Query Result-Set Into A WDDX Packet
There are many uses to the WDDX functionality in ColdFusion. To put it simply, using the CFWDDX tag developers can serialize and deserialize complex data structures into an XML-based format. For the purposes of this article we'll only look at the CFWDDX tag from the standpoint of creating WDDX packets.