I am with Sam here. It's about the Event Gateway. Presumably,
anything that can create an event can initiate a CFC that need not be
coupled with a browser (or anything, for that matter). JMS is only one
(of many) ways to create an event.
I, personally, am very jazzed about this!
Dick
On Aug 16, 2004, at 7:15 PM, Samuel R. Neff wrote:
> Huh?��The article is primarily about the Event Gateway architecture and
> doesn't even mention JMS once.��The Event Gateway stuff is about SMS
> and IM
> integration, listening on sockets, and asynchronous CFC calls.��All
> great
> stuff that I'd use a lot in my CF development (particularly async
> calls).
>
> Sam
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 10:02 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: BLACKSTONE: Software Development Times Article
> >
> > > Seriously, IMO, the gateway is one of the most significant
> (sleaper)
> > > features of Blackstone.
> > >
> > It will probably be a sleeper feature in that not many people
> > use it. The
> > amount of JMS use in J2EE web applications is rather low. Why
> > would CFML web
> > applications need this kind of functionality more than Java
> > developers? I
> > have never used a message queue outside of an enterprise integration
> > project.
> >
> > Anyway, if you remember one of the most hyped features of
> > CFMX was cfimport,
> > which "gives CFML developers access to thousands of JSP tab
> > libraries." How
> > many people are using cfimport for that purpose? It is clear
> > to me that
> > anything in CFML that requires knowledge of Java instantly lowers
> the
> > potential market by a huge factor. For most folks the
> > importance of CFMX's
> > support for J2EE was simply the ability to deploy CFML
> > applications on J2EE.
> >
> > If you ask me, the big new features will be Flash-based forms and
> the
> > ability to easily create PDF files. Of course, BlueDragon's
> > support for .NET
> > could be this year's biggest CFML feature.
> >
> > -Matt
>
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