Jon, Actually - don't discount it out of hand. We recently did a simple reporting form in Excel that passes a username/password and a number of search parameters to a web service. The resulting object populated the report - which included some charts and calculations. It was pretty slick data presentation stuff. The old way to do it would have been COM on the server side - but this approach is more platform agnostic and easier to program. Don't mis-understand me. COM is going to be around as long as folks are still using old versions of Office (and for a lot of other reasons). But for projects going forward, this approach CAN work very well.
-mk -----Original Message----- From: jon hall [mailto:jonhall@;ozline.net] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:06 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Urgent : GURU Required: Excel vs COM in CFMX Web Services != replacement for COM. Not by a long shot. -- jon mailto:jonhall@;ozline.net Thursday, October 24, 2002, 12:01:49 PM, you wrote: >> I don't think we'll agree that COM is dead until there is >> a viable replacement. DW> Maybe not, but I don't think Microsoft cares too much about our opinions, DW> and since it's their toybox, there isn't much we can do about it. DW> And, of course, there are several viable replacements. Perhaps those DW> replacements don't fill the niches you're interested in right now (Office DW> automation, for example), but it's safe to assume that they will, over time. DW> Newer versions of Office will support these replacements - web services, for DW> example. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
