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December 23, 2002

Accessing Java Servlets

Java Servlets are essentially programs. They can be invoked from within ColdFusion just like any other Web pages (using ). In addition, Servlets can be accessed directly using the CFML GetPageContext() function's include() method. (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

December 21, 2002

ColdFusion to Java Type Conversion

When possible, ColdFusion automatically handles the conversion of types between it and Java. Most types (for example, integer, date, and boolean) have obvious conversions. Complex data types (including structure and query) do not have exact Java equivalents and are converted to Map. (Applies to:...

December 20, 2002

Java Object Search Order

When Java objects are invoked, ColdFusion attempts to locate the required objects automatically. ColdFusion searches the following locations (in this order): WEB-INF/lib, WEB-INF/classes, the classpath specified in the ColdFusion Administrator, the default JVM classpath. (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

December 17, 2002

Improving Web Service Invocation Performance

If you make multiple requests to a Web Service you can improve performance by not making ColdFusion set up and prepare the connection repeatedly. How? Instead of using use CreateObject(), this way ColdFusion maintains Web Service information in a variable that can be used repeatedly. And you can...

December 16, 2002

Clustering Session Variables

If you need to share session data across a cluster then you must use CLIENT variables. Right? Wrong! CLIENT variables can indeed be shared, but if you are using ColdFusion for J2EE (and J2EE managed SESSION variables) then SESSION variables can be clustered too. There is one gotcha however,...

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