Well, here are my 2 cents on this: I have been (am) a HUGE supporter of Cold Fusion. I think it's one of the (if not THE) best solutions for building web applications out there. I totally agree with Stacy's remarks - it's EXTREMELY easy to learn/use, and the time to market is simply PHENOMENAL! I've built a *LOT* of web applications, and i don't think i've come across one that i couldn't build using CF. Developing in CF is faster than anything else out there.
Having said that, the one BIG "drawback" was that to utilize a lot of the cool capabilities of the CF server, you couldn't just use the freebie (CF-Express), you had to shell out 4 to 5 grand to acquire one of those puppies. With Java (JSP/Servlets etc), you get this great app server (Tomcat) for free, and a whole bunch of tags which try to do basically the same thing that the CF tags do, but with more robustness (?) and scalability (?) etc - that's cool! 8) And you can see the way the tags are implemented too cos it's open source! Now if NEO really takes off, and (if) CF gets bundled with Tomcat, i would gladly start using CF tags again. Anyhoo - i'm happy with both. In time i hope i can use JSP/Servlets with the same speed and functionality as i use CF tags. Regards, Anuj. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
