On 6/5/07, Doug Bezona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > C. This brings us back to the question... what makes this a good idea? Why > > overly complicate something? > > > > While it may not be common, there are a lot of large organizations out there > with multiple applications in multiple languages. Having a tool that can > integrate these applications can be very powerful. Getting a couple of > developers up to speed on CF to write some "glue" code to get, say a .NET > app and a PHP app talking to one another may make more sense than completely > porting applications to another language. > > This isn't just an abstract scenario - this is a potential solution to a > real world situation I was in a year or so ago - two large (50+) development > teams combined - one team was .NET, one was Java, and they wanted to create > a system that could leverage apps from both teams. > > The "solution", at the time, was to choose .NET as the standard, and port > all of the Java code. Ick. Now with CF8's .NET support, one or two > developers could simply have created the "bridge" app, and the rest of the > developers could have continued moving forward with either Java or .NET or > both.
Though one could argue that today, the right solution would be to put web service (SOAP, REST, whatever) around the various services produced by each group in a SOA architecture. In that scenario, ColdFusion is not really needed to provide the bridge. Sharing objects directly is useful in some situations; sharing data though IMHO seems the more necessary integration challenge. -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| CF 8 â Scorpio beta now available, easily build great internet experiences â Try it now on Labs http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_adobecf8_beta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280203 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
