ColdFusion MX works with Java… if you have money
Fall approacheth, so it is time to awaken from my summer blogging slumber.
I’ve been having a lot of trouble lately in experiencing how truly proprietary ColdFusion is. As much as people have touted how awesome ColdFusion MX is at Java integration, I certainly have run across my fair share of roadblocks, especially with the Standard Edition.
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Imagine this nightmare for a second. You tell your coworkers about how you can write custom tags with JSP and leverage them in ColdFusion. A programmer begins writing a fairly complex JSP tag and is nearly complete when you realize that your copy of Standard Edition doesn’t support JSP tags. It takes a considerable amount of research to find any documented evidence that this is in fact the case. The Livedocs don’t even state that the cfimport tag is only available in the Enterprise Edition. Hopefully my comment will appear soon.
I will admit that I’ve been spoiled over the past four years. I’ve always have Enterprise Edition available. I do know that every tool has its limitations, and part of my job is to learn about these limitations. But if I have the capability of writing classes in Java and invoking them in ColdFusion Standard, then why can’t I have the ability to invoke JSP tags? Drop the leash, Adobe.
A few months back I was working with some Java boys trying to integrate a custom jar. They were using a newer version of log4j then the one CF ships with. We never got it running. That wasn’t the only confilct but it’s definitely the first one that comesto mind. We tried updating the CF log4j library and then the server wouldn’t start.
Personally I think true CF and Java integration is a nice dream but it’s a lot more trouble then it’s worth.9/1/06 9:54 AM
Comment by Joe Mastroianni — September 1, 2006 @ 9:54 am