MX is having some COM problems right now, and they are working on a fix to the problem. Hopefully a patch will come out soon.
Douglas Brown Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Smith, Don , , WHS/PSD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:24 AM Subject: CFOBJECT and CFMX - ActivePDF > While I'm waiting for some help desk people to get back in touch with me, I > wanted to send this question to the list: > > We upgraded our test server to CFMX (finally) and run ActivePDF on just > about every site on the server (PDF is a standard over here). When we > upgraded CFMX totally botched the COM object calls. Even though they appear > to be normal (and are unchanged): > > <CFOBJECT > ACTION="Create" > TYPE="COM" > CLASS=APSERVER.Object > NAME="APServer"> > > We're running into this error: > "An exception occurred during method selection process for Method > OUTPUTDIRECTORY The cause of this exception was that there are no methods > with the specified method name and argument types." > > Where CFMX doesn't recognize the methods for the object. > > I understand from talking to Dave Watts among others that CFMX has a hard > time creating mappings from com to Java. The knowledge base articles talk > about writing Java Stubs and other people suggested Windows Script Host or > VB wrappers. Personally I think that's an insane workaround for one of the > more common tags in CF. To me the whole point of CFOBJECT is so you don't > have to learn and write vb or wsh to call windows objects, so writing a > wrapper seems like Macromedia's way of deprecating cfobject. > > Thanks for any help! > > Don > > Don > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm 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
