iPhone Applications in ColdFusion

Last night I watched and interesting presentation, by Joshua Adams of Adobe, showing how to implement certain types of applications using Javascript and ColdFusion on iPhone.

You may think that building applications for the iPhone wouild be well beyond ColdFusion which is a server side technology. The availability of several javascript libraries allow applications written in CF to run with iPhone as a bit more than a basic browser client.

In this presentation by Joshua Adams, you can see how easy it is to make use of some of the features on an iPhone from what is essentially an AJAX application written in CF and Javascript.

If you want to download the slides they are available on his blog.

The presented example application uses nimblekit, a JS framework for the iPhone. This allows access to some of the special features of the iPhone.

Joshua also mentions several other frameworks that would be suitable for use with CF including quickconnect which can also be used to develop apps for the Symbian Platform and PhoneGap for the blackberry.