Running Javascript In ColdFusion With CFGroovy And Rhino
As Barney Boisvert has demonstrated with his CFGroovy custom tags , scripting in Java is surprisingly easy. As he explains in the CFGroovy project, any scripting language that is JSR-223 compliant can be executed inside of a Java-based context with mostly-seamless communication between the Java context and the scripting context. The CFGroovy project was desi ... Read More »

Happy Thanksgiving From Ben Nadel
Happy Thanksgiving from Ben Nadel and www.bennadel.com.             ... Read More »

StructCopy() Duplicates Argument-Collection Functionality Without Deep Copy In ColdFusion
In ColdFusion, the Arguments-Collection object is an objectively awesome object because it allows us to access a function's CFArgument values using either named-keys or ordered-indices. That's way cool! When I was writing my last post on ArraySplice() , I thought it would be nice to be able to duplicate the argument collection without performing a deep c ... Read More »

ColdFusion ArraySplice() Method As An Example Of A Dynamic Method Signature
Last week, I blogged about using ColdFusion's CFParam tag as a possible way to enforce CFArgument-like functionality in a situation where you might not know which arguments will exist at compile time. That post spun off into a very interesting conversation about the pros and cons of using named-arguments versus ordered-argum ... Read More »

CFContent-Variable Response vs. Standard Output Response
I've been playing around with ColdFusion Builder Extensions lately and I'm running into some very odd behavior. Before I write anything about that, however, I wanted to confirm that a response driven by the CFContent tag and its Variable attribute is identical to a response driven by the standard ColdFusion output. To test this hypothesis, I created a simple ColdFusion page that would take XML data and return it, based on a URL variable, using either the standard ColdFusion output or the CFCo ... Read More »