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

Chapter 79. Extending ColdFusion with CFX

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• What Are CFX Tags? 559

• Introducing the CFX API 561

• Writing CFX Tags with Java 566

• Generating Debug Output 590

• Returning Structures from CFX Tags 591

• Using CFX Tags Safely: Locking and Thread Safety 595

• Using CFX Tags with Previous Versions of ColdFusion 596

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As you have learned in previous chapters, you have the capability to write your own custom tags, user defined functions, and components—all using ColdFusion’s native language, CFML. It’s possible to extend ColdFusion’s capabilities even farther with CFX tags. The main difference is that you don’t use ColdFusion’s markup language to create the tag; rather, you use an external programming language (Java or C++) ...