This chapter describes how to develop an application that uses the short message service (SMS) event gateway type provided with Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7. It briefly describes SMS and the tools that ColdFusion MX 7 provides for developing SMS applications. It then describes how you can configure the SMS event gateway and write and test an application that uses the event gateway.
This chapter assumes that you are familiar with ColdFusion event gateway principals and programming techniques, as described in Using Event Gateways. It does not assume that you are familiar with SMS, but a basic knowledge would be helpful.
Note: ColdFusion MX Standard Edition does not support event gateways. ColdFusion MX Developer Edition limits connections so that each gateway can send messages to only a single SMS address.