CFOBJECT Question

[newbiepg]

I am completely new to cold fussion and I have a question.

I was asked to check if the CFOBJECT tag can be used to call a component. The component must call something written in Cold Fusion ,like a custom tag.

 

[csteinhilber]

Well... the short answer is "yes".

The long answer is "it depends a great deal on how the component is written, and in what".

CFOBJECT can certainly call components (especially if you're running MX... CFOBJECT has been greatly enhanced). Under MX, CFOBJECT can call COM, CORBA, Java, Web-service and ColdFusion Components (CFCs).

What type of component were you interested in invoking?
If you're talking about a COM object, for instance, with a little work, you could probably then get that object to call a ColdFusion template. Though, if that's really the goal, you'd be much better off writing the component in ColdFusion as well and offer it as a CFC.



-Carl

 

[newbiepg]

Hi csteinhilber

There was some confusion here, it seems we can use simple custom tags. Thanks for trying to answer a strange question.