Although earlier versions of ColdFusion supported Java objects and servlets
to some degree, ColdFusion MX does so in a big way. This support opens up
commercially available libraries to ColdFusion developers that were
previously only available to J2EE shops. Moreover, you can now draw from an
immense library of free code from within the Java open-source community. This
availability greatly enhances the features of your own applications and
speeds your ColdFusion-based solutions to market. Use these objects to
provide back-end processing or user-interface functionality, or simplify
coding CFM pages by supplementing ColdFusion functions and tags with Java
TagLibraries.
Of particular note is how ColdFusion MX hosts and runs the Apache Jakarta
Project's Struts Action servlet. By implementing Struts, ColdFusion MX offers
a Model-2 Model-View-Controller (or MVC) environm... (more)