Section 10.8. What s Next?

   

10.8 What's Next ?

In this chapter we covered ways to extend ColdFusion with Java. You can write ColdFusion CFX custom tags using the ColdFusion interface for Java. You learned how to call Java objects from inside ColdFusion and use <cfobject> and the native ColdFusion function JavaCast() to differentiate between Java data types.

Applets may or may not have a significant future. For now, people are using them to write stock ticker applications and perform graphics manipulation. It is expected that Java WebStart, which we examine later in this book, will become the client-side venue of choice for client-side Java applications because of its superior power and its imperviousness to the browser wars.

In the next chapter, we cover Collections . The interfaces in the java.util.Collection framework provide different ways of representing objects in groups. Java collections include lists, maps, sets, and vectors. For the moment, you can think of collections as Java's way of handling name -value pairs. That is, they're what you use in Java when you're wishing you had a ColdFusion structure.


   
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Java for ColdFusion Developers
Java for ColdFusion Developers
ISBN: 0130461806
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 206
Authors: Eben Hewitt

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