Dick
On Jun 28, 2004, at 8:12 PM, Barney Boisvert wrote:
> Depending on what Blackstone brings with it's Java integration, you
> might be
> 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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