Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development

Chapter 78. Extending ColdFusion with Java

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• Using Java Class Objects 521

• Using JavaBeans 541

• Using Tag Libraries 542

• Accessing the Underlying Servlet Context 545

• Integrating with Java Servlets and JSP Pages 547

• Integrating with EJBs 553

• Writing Java CFX Tags 558

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CFML is an exceedingly powerful language, but occasionally there are situations where it is not enough. Maybe you will find that you need to talk to a legacy system, interact with other applications more directly, create extremely high-performance code, or something else. All of these things can be done through Java and the J2EE platform.

This chapter introduces to you a variety of ways for interacting with various objects and services provided ...