After the recent thread I thought I would clarify my position on CFMX. I do indeed like it. In fact, all of my new development has been on CFMX beta 3 since it came out. Further, I was able to successfully port all of my CF 5 applications to CFMX with only minor changes.
I disagree with the plan of moving CF over to J2EE, but we are here now, so that is a moot point. I do think/know that CF 5 out performances CFMX on a single server. However, the type of applications I build with CF will be more scalable with CFMX thanks to J2EE. If you see this as a contradiction, I'm sorry; there is a fundamental difference between performance and scalability. I am glad we as CF developers finally have native access to XML and Web services. However, there are some interopablility issues with CFMX based Web services you should be aware of. I can give details in other mail if you would like. I have been using a CFMX based Web service in production since the release of beta 3. Since CFMX Web services are based on Apache Axis, I am sure the interoperability issues will be worked out soon. CFCs are both a good thing and bad for CF developers. While it is great that you can now encapsulate your logic into a component, you are left feeling cheated. In Java, a developer has the ability to create not only classes, but also interfaces and abstract classes. We need the ability to create CFC interfaces and abstract CFCs. Further, CFC inheritance is broken IMHO, as CFCs don't inherit private methods and properties. Additionally, I would have liked to see constructors and destructors as well as some sort of built-in way to serialize and deserialize CFCs. Yes, I am aware that you can do pseduo constructors, but you cannot build a constructor takes parameters. Think that is enough for now. -Matt ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
