Josh, Although SOAP and web services are great, it's not going to help you now. Nor would it be the best solution for your project.
A basic run down of webservices vs. COM: CFMX has Java under the hood instead of C. This causes a lot of headaches when working with COM. COM is C based. C hates Java, and Java hates C. The general consensus for CFMX is that if you don't absolutely have to use COM, find a JAVA solution. I'm not familiar with the product you are using, but chances are they don't have a java version. Nearly every MS product, including Office, offers access to their internal COM objects. However, the .NET architecture opens up the system without COM. Office 11 (currently in beta) will have native web services built it. No idea as to the extent of the web services, but wouldn't expect much. Back to you COM issues: My best advice is to just keep plugging away at it. Do a cfdump of the object to see if it is loading properly. Check the API to make sure you are specifying everything it need, in the correct dataTypes. Good luck, Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -----Original Message----- From: Joshua O'Connor-Rose [mailto:whifflebat@;hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 1:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFOBJECT and conversion from ASP I'm using ColdFusion 5 I've heard of these web service things in seminars and meetings discussing net and other development environments. I haven't realy explored using them Can I implement a web service into my application now? (Like that Doc to HTML web service) Where can I learn about that. -From the desk of Joshua O'Connor-Rose (aka Whifflebat) -All is Good >From: "Adrocknaphobia Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: CFOBJECT and conversion from ASP >Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:18:17 -0500 > >Well, I'll agree with you halfway. COM is definitely not dead, although >MM acts like it is. However, webservices may be able to replace basic >COM functions like using Office to convert a word doc to html. But it's >not going to be able to replace the sophistication COM offers >developers. > >Josh: What version of CF are you using? > >Adam Wayne Lehman >Web Systems Developer >Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health >Distance Education Division > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jason Lees (National Express) >[mailto:Jason.Lees@;NationalExpress.Co.uk] >Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:03 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: RE: CFOBJECT and conversion from ASP > >Coms not dead yet as you say theres too many older applications using >it, >but the way forward is webservices, which is basically a newer version >of >Com without the all the hassles. > >With reagrd the problem try > >myMethod = myObject.item("title"); >myMethod = "title"; > > > >Jason Lees >Systems Developer >National Express Coaches Ltd. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Joshua O'Connor-Rose [mailto:whifflebat@;hotmail.com] >Sent: 12 November 2002 15:57 >To: CF-Talk >Subject: CFOBJECT and conversion from ASP > > >OK so COM is dead, I would like to see the thread. Do you have a link. >That would also imply that no one uses it anymore. > >Anyway the office I'm developing for is using all that dead stuff. > >I have been advocating replacing what they have with Verity and >hopefully >that is what the system will convert to. But right now . . . I'm a slave >to >a contract. > >In response to your suggestion (thanks for the post) > >myObject = myObject.item("title"); >myObject = "title"; > >This throws an error "the parameter is incorrect" on this line: >myObject = myObject.item("title"); >which I assume is coming from the object itself. > >So that doesn't work either. (It as if the object won't accept the name >of >the option without an assignment operator). > >Any other ideas? or am I going to have to use asp? > >-Joshua O'Connor-Rose >-All is Good > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
