anyone here use ajax with coldfusion? does it work? pros and cons? i've found a page where you can download CFAjax but I'm wondering if it's actually necessary to get this to make coldfusion ajax compatible..
AJAX is a combination of JavaScript and other technologies. ColdFusion is a server side application that can generate JavaScript along with your HTML. So there hasn't been any compatiblity issues between AJAX and ColdFusion. There can be a lot of code that goes into AJAX and ColdFusion can encapsulate most of that leaving you to feed it parameters unique to your application. So you might use AJAX to add a type ahead function which might be many lines of code but CFAjax may allow you to do it with a custom tag that you only supply a datasource, table and column to. There is a lot of AJAX built into ColdFusion 8, you might want to check that out first.