> invocation of CFCs? I remember you complaining about not being able
> to to this without really digging really deep and that it really
> wasn't recommened due to its fragile and tricky nature. Isn't nice
> that MM has provided a public, documented and fully supported API for
> interacting with CFMX via extenal Java code?
>
I don't believe the event gateway and Java invocation of CFCs is the same
thing. There should be an easy way to call CFCs from Java and my
understanding is that Blackstone will have it. The event gateway it seems
will be at a higher level constraining you to a framework Macromedia
designed.
> Sure, the event gateway is not the most wiz-bang feature in store, but
> decoupling CFMX from the HTTP protocol (not the browser) and making
> that lower level interaction simple and accessible is a very important
> change.
>
If you have Java invocation of CFCs then you don't have to be tied to the
HTTP protocol anyway. Again, the event gateway is not required for all the
use cases people keep mentioning.
> Think about this... don't like the way CFMX handles webservices?
> Thinks its buggy and a pain to use? Just don't want to use Axis
> because you have a better idea? Write your own event gateway for
> webservices and that utilizes some other SOAP engine. Want to
> implement SOAP via SMTP which CF doesn't really do? Write your own
> gateway.
>
Again, with Java invocation of CFCs you could do just that. What about the
event gateway makes it better?
> Come on Matt. Java's great, but why bother with it if you don't have
> to... especially if you can do it easier in CF?
>
Again, if the built-in event gateways don't do what you want you still need
to use Java to build them, so that isn't really an argument.
-Matt
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