I am by no means an export on these topics, and may not have a clear understanding of all the concepts you are discussing.
But CF by no means HAS to be running on the same machine as the web server. It is quite possible, and sometime done for scalability reasons, to have one or more web server machines talking to one or more ColdFusion machines. Configuring these machines so that only the web server(s) "know" where the CF machine(s) are is more of a network question then a server question. But it think the biggest point here is since that ColdFusion is now built on Java one is going to have a hard time coming up with anything that can be done in Java and can't be done with ColdFusion and Java. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289337 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
