I think that Java is far too entrenched within the enterprise for anyone to consider abandoning it, including Oracle. I do not see this as the death knell of Java, or for CF, but rather an excuse for resources to be dedicated more heavily towards improving Java as a whole. The issue addressed here is in relation to client side Java controls, which present little to no threat to CF based applications, or the CF server itself. (CERT suggested disabling Java *in web browsers*, not killing off JEE servers) Homeland Security uses ColdFusion servers, as do large segments of the US and foreign governments. (I won't even mention the thousands of Tomcat and JBoss JEE server installations within the government and corporate environments to boot.)
Hold your cries til true cause says to. Steve 'Cutter' Blades Adobe Community Professional Adobe Certified Expert Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer ____________ http://cutterscrossing.com Co-Author "Learning Ext JS 3.2" Packt Publishing 2010 https://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js-3-2-for-building-dynamic-desktop-style-user-interfaces/book "The best way to predict the future is to help create it" On 1/16/2013 10:43 AM, Robert Harrison wrote: > I'd assume you've all been seeing the recent reports on Java. It's been > officially announced by HomeLand Security that the zero day error and other > problems are too deeply embedded in Java to fix with a patch. Their official > recommendation is to remove Java from all machines. I know Oracle put out a > patch for this, but reports are the patch is considered insufficient and the > problems too close to the core to fix. Information Week has an article on > recommending users scale back on use of Java, remove it wherever possible, > and do no further Java development. For example, see: > > http://www.darkreading.com/database-security/167901020/security/news/240146361/the-death-of-java-in-the-enterprise.html?cid=nl_DR_daily_2013-01-16_html&elq=4d908631d1b04069869fc003faf4e182 > > Question is: Could this be the death of CF? CF has been tenuous for > several years now, and given that the core system on which CF is built (Java) > is now getting bad press, what do you think this means for the future of CF? > > > > Robert Harrison > Director of Interactive Services > > Austin & Williams > Advertising I Branding I Digital I Direct > 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 I Hauppauge, NY 11788 > T 631.231.6600 X 119 F 631.434.7022 > http://www.austin-williams.com > > Blog: http://www.austin-williams.com/blog > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/austin_ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:353934 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
