Sean

Basically it comes down to software licencing.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/eula/server/

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Section 3 (b) of the EULA

You may not alter, merge, adapt or translate the Software, or decompile,
reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a
human-perceivable form.
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I ask you this.  Whats the point of an administrator if all your gonna do is
get into it, see how it works and create your own code that will do what the
administrator does.  From a point of view of a hosting provider this would
be a nightmare.  But from a developers point of view, there is good cause to
see how it ticks.

Regardless of each ones perception of what is good and what is bad, the EULA
is the bible so to speak and if you violate the EULA, then good luck to you.

As Spike says, if its not documented, its not documented for a reason.
Coldfusion provides to developers a set of tags to do what we need to do,
and what ever special things run the administrator should not be used in
development.  Macromedia can change, add or even remove any of those
"special" tags/functions at any time from its andministrator product, so why
would you rely on them for your applications.

Anyway

Thats my bit

Steve


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sean
Sent: Friday, 6 June 2003 12:47 AM
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Subject: [cfaussie] Re: cf.Factory (coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory)


Hi Robin,

Color me confused... But does making use of the cffactory services involve
breaking the EULA? I'm told they're used fairly extensively in the
administrator application... but I first found out about them from a
developer list, and learned most everything I know about them from CFDUMP
and some constructive experimentation.

I'm admittedly hazy on the exact details of the EULA off the top of my head.
But I'm a touch curious what dangerous ground we're treading on?

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Hilliard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 5 June 2003 7:57 PM
To: CFAussie Mailing List
Subject: [cfaussie] Re: cf.Factory (coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory)


Don't forget what Geoff said about discussing stuff that breaks the EULA on
the list...

"Beattie, Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> anyone know of more documentation (and examples?) for cf.Factory other
than
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> http://www1.oli.tudelft.nl/jochemd/index.cfm?PageID=10
>
> ??? It's the only link I can find on it
>
> thanx
> barry.b



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