For years there has been a group of people -- myself included -- that have tried to explain to masses of Microsoft developers the perils of COM only to fall on death ears. While I can certainly understand not wanting to rewrite COM based code; my feeling is that the code shouldn't have been written with COM to begin with. Now that COM is officially dead hopefully developers will pay more attention to what technologies they make use of.
If you're waiting for better COM support from CFMX, you best stop waiting. It is just never going to happen. Sure Macromedia managed to pull off some hacks to make COM support better, but no amount of hacks will fix support for the crap we call COM. Matt Liotta President & CEO Montara Software, Inc. http://www.montarasoftware.com/ 888-408-0900 x901 > -----Original Message----- > From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 2:22 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Com ASP and CFMX hopefully MM are listing and fixing > > Matt; > > I find your attitude on COM difficult to understand, not so much because > this may be where the industry is heading but because of all the > applications out there using it. I am especially thinking about ArcIMS, > our > internet Map server which uses COM all over the place. > > The fact I could rewrite all the COM interfaces in java is not realistic, > since this is a product already in production which took over two years to > produce. Rewriting all that code would take months with a team of > developers, and it is just silly to even think of doing. > > Don't get me wrong, there are aspects of MX (especially Flash remoting) > that > I love and want to use. But the lack of COM support is THE reason my shop > will not upgrading to MX anytime soon. > > M > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 3:57 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Com ASP and CFMX hopefully MM are listing and fixing > > > COM is dead! The sooner people realize that the sooner their problems > will go away. > > Matt Liotta > President & CEO > Montara Software, Inc. > http://www.montarasoftware.com/ > 888-408-0900 x901 > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
