able to mix Java and CF very easily. If you can call CFCs from Java, then
you've got something that might start to approximate what you're looking
for. Write the stuff you can in CF, because it's easier and faster, but the
stuff that needs Java can use it. And no restriction that once the
application flows to Java, you can never come back. Definitely need to work
out some of those bugs (NULL!!!) that make switching from Java to CF and
back a PITA, but hopefully that's on the Blackstone slate as well. Of
course, you're still limited in that you have to have a CF runtime on the
executing machine, but the scope of that problem might change as well, if MM
sees CF as something that can be used for client-side apps, rather than just
server-side.
Which brings up an interesting situation. MM's already got Flash for the
interface of a server-side app. They've got Director for client side apps.
Then there's Central (did anything ever happen with that?) that brings
server-side apps client side. Kind of. But if we actually had CF on our
side.....
You were hitting this in another thread, but this could be very exciting.
Simple Swing applications are anything but simple. Simple Flash, however,
is simple. I'd love to implement a controller and backend in CFCs, write
the UI in flash, and away you go. Hell of a lot faster than Swing or AWT,
even with a good tool to help you do the GUI.
Of course, it's all idle speculation, and now horribly off topic, but in 6-9
months, there could be some really sweet things happening.
Cheers,
barneyb
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Applebaum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 7:42 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: How does CF generated Java bytecode compare with
> Native Java bytecode
>
> Barney
>
> Thanks for that...
>
> A lot of experience talking!
>
> I, too, had a long "discussion" with Sean Corfield about the lack of
> Null in CF -- I was trying to wriet a general-purpose DB client in
> CF/Java.
>
> So, I prolly can't do the whole job in CF (only) but will need an
> assist from Java to do some things beyond CF's capability.
>
> But, could some of these "things" be standardized/codified in Java,
> then invoked from CF -- then at some point folded into the CF
> language
> implementation..
>
> AFAIK, this is the approach that BD takes to their implementation of
> CFML (and their extensions).
>
> Dick
>
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