Drew Falkman

Since the release of ColdFusion MX, the ColdFusion community has been rumbling about the possibilities made available by CFMX's powerful Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) underpinnings; using servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), JavaBeans, and Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) components are the most notable examples. Out of this discussion has arisen the concept of ColdFusion/J2EE hybrid applications. As an ideal, CFMX/J2EE hybrids offer the rapid development and robust high-level services of CFMX, while integrating the deeper transactional and low-level programming power of Java. With all of the possibilities for architecting and developing these hybrid applications, it seems to me that it's time for the ColdFusion development community to seriously discuss what some of the best ... (more)

Beef Up Your Apps with Enterprise JavaBeans

ColdFusion MX has opened up an entirely new world for us CF developers, and along with its new J2EE underpinnings comes an entirely new development construct for us to use in our application development: Enterprise JavaBeans. EJBs aren't really a bunch of beans, but rather a specification. The EJB specification defines a methodology for deploying robust and distributed components. What th... (more)