right...I decided to have a little play around with Flex Data Services today. I popped over to http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flex to download Flex Data Services Express, which is a free, single machine version. Went through the installation process until I got to the screen asking if I wanted to install FDS with integrated jrun or the J2EE web application, I chose the latter because my development machine runs Coldfusion in its jrun configuration so I thought it could be deployed on top of that...after hours of confusion, it turns out that this is not the case.

Apparently FDS needs it own jrun instance as does coldfusion...doh!

So, due to the lack of obvious documentation to tell me this, I spent several hours scratching my head before uninstalling FDS completely and re-installing it with he "integrated jrun" configuration

I just selected "start>all programs>adobe>flex data services 2>start integrated flex server" and away it went, a quick check on http://localhost:8700/samples confirmed this.

so people if you're just starting out, don't make the same assumption as I did, select the integrated jrun version and save yourself a load of pain!

I looked briefly at a few options so here's a couple of links that may be handy depending on your configuration.

• configuring IIS, coldfusion and FDS (I use apache but some helpfull info non the less)
• information for the tomcat inclined.