Coldfusion + .NET or J2EE

[JakeFlynn]

Since I have been reading the forums here I have often seen people post that
Coldfusions new selling point is that it is a complement to .NET or J2EE. I am
just starting to learn Coldfusion. I am a programmer with a descent amount of
C++ experience and the object oriented aspects of .NET or J2EE appeal to me. To
my question already... After I get Coldfusion down I would like to concentrate
my efforts on learning .NET or J2EE. Obviously I would like the time that I
have spent learning Coldfusion not to be a complete waste. So I am wondering
what does CF complement better a .NET environment or a J2EE one?

[gumshoe]

So I am wondering
what does CF complement better a .NET environment or a J2EE one?

Beyond doubt, a J2EE one.

Obviously I would like the time that I

> have spent learning Coldfusion not to be a complete waste

It would not be if you go the j2ee route. CF runs atop a j2ee server and
allows you to work interchanagbly with java code. You've heard of JSP and
javaBeans, right? Well coldfusion, to me, is just an alternate (faster) way
to write these parts of a j2ee application. Think of it like this, you have
just written a java class that all sort so wonderful things, lets call it
wonderfulThingDoer, here's how you can work in cf:

<cfset wonderfulThing = createObject("java", "WonderfulThingDoer") >
<cfset methodCallResult = wonderfulThing.someMethod() >

Just a couple of lines of code (this could even be done in one line) and you
have reached out into the land of j2ee/java. You can even use java tag
libraries in cf pages, mix jsp with cf, forward to cf pages from servlets
and have java variables available for use in said cf page, the list goes on
and on. And that was in the last version of cf, I haven' even had chance to
look at this versions java features.

J2EE is made of many many API's (too many) - CF drastically simplifies a
great deal of all this but does not in any way rule out access to any of it.









"JakeFlynn" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Since I have been reading the forums here I have often seen people post
> that
> Coldfusions new selling point is that it is a complement to .NET or J2EE.
> I am
> just starting to learn Coldfusion. I am a programmer with a descent amount
> of
> C++ experience and the object oriented aspects of .NET or J2EE appeal to
> me. To
> my question already... After I get Coldfusion down I would like to
> concentrate
> my efforts on learning .NET or J2EE. Obviously I would like the time that
> I
> have spent learning Coldfusion not to be a complete waste. So I am
> wondering
> what does CF complement better a .NET environment or a J2EE one?
>

[JakeFlynn]

Thanks for the reply!