> I am not sure I have found CFMODULE, CFMAIL, CFPOP, CFOBJECT
> type tags in ASP. Of course if you wanted to be really
> text-editor cool I suppose you could just spend a fist full
> of time making com objects to do all those things....
Not necessary. While I don't want to sound like an ASP advocate, most of
that stuff is essentially already in ASP as well.
CFMODULE allows you to build user-defined functions. You can do that
directly within your ASP scripts, or include other ASP scripts which contain
the function or functions you want to use.
CFMAIL and CFPOP analogs within ASP are called Collaborative Data Objects
(CDO), which you can use to talk to your Exchange server. Granted, I don't
think these will as easily allow the use of internet standards like SMTP and
POP, but in an all-MS environment, this may not be an issue.
Finally, CFOBJECT is not nearly as powerful or flexible as creating COM
object instances within ASP. Everything you do in ASP requires instantiating
one object or another, and I just wish CFOBJECT let me work with COM objects
with the ease that the Server.CreateObject method does in ASP. CF does have
an advantage in that you can use CFOBJECT to talk with CORBA and Java
objects in addition to COM, though.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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