October 14, 2009 | In: actionscript, coldfusion, flex, java
I see a trend happening at Adobe that I believe others may be detecting but no one has come out and said it yet. This trend will have a significant impact on software engineers who are experienced and/or committed to the Adobe stack of technologies -...
While helping a colleague out with a tricky problem accessing Excel files, I downloaded the Java Excel API library from SourceForge. After a quick scan of the documentation, I started to write some ColdFusion code. jxlWorkbook =...
October 27, 2006 | In: coldfusion, java
Ok, so it's not really in ColdFusion, but I wrong a Java library so that I could access image manipulation routines in my ColdFusion apps. Using the Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API made it very easy to write a library to perform a variety of...
I'm investigating some basic, everyday operations that many web application developers face. Using very simple test cases, I'm determining if there is a time savings by writing Java code and calling it from ColdFusion. If there is a savings,...
I stumbled across this great article that Terry Ford wrote when CFMX 6.1 was released. It's still relevant and one of the best beginner tutorials on Java resource usage I've seen.Macromedia - Developer Center : Using Java and J2EE Elements in...