T or F about CF?

[multiplex77]

Hi,

Is it true that ColdFusion:

1. Does not support BLOBs;

2. Is not Object-oriented (compared to ASP or ASP.Net);

3. Does not support use COM objects and DLLs;

4. Has performance problems when running high traffic sites?

Just saw some of these comments on the Tek Tips ASP forum. Are any of these issues resolved in the latest version of CF?

So how does CF compare with ASP.Net anyway? I've used CF and ASP but never tried ASP.Net.

Appreciate your comments

 

[pigsie]

Hi

1. False blobs are database dependant and have nothing to do with coldfusion (Shows how much these programmers know)

2. True it is not truly object orientated. ASP.net has 'just ' become object orientated with .net. That said the new version of cf (called cfmx - you can download a preview version at macromedia.com) has cfcs which are *similar* to objects but lack inheritance. Your cf pages are actually compiled into java classes which you could call from java if you wanted to.

3.False look in the cf documentation and you will see that cfobject can be used with COM as well as Java classes. Again shows how much these guys know about cf. However there may be some limitations.

4.False because coldfusion is so easy to write you have many people who can use it but create crap code hence the reason that it has this bad reputation. If asp was as easy cf you would have the same problem. HTML is easy to use hence the abundance of crap websites out there.

I cant compare cf with asp.net as i've never used asp.net.

I've used asp and the one advantage it has was that you could modularise it using COM with little or performance problems. This wasnt as easy before with cf but now with coldfusion mx and CFCs Coldfusion components its acheiveable.

Have these guys had a look at the next version of cf? ITs java based( but still uses the cf tags), allows you to create web services as easy as creating a custom tag. Native xml support, built in server side graphing engine, you can include JSP tag libraries in CF pages as well.

It Can easily interact with flash so that you can have cf on the server dynamically udpating flash movies without refreshing the page.

A lot of developers will be blown out of the water with the next version of cf simply because it allows you to do what other products do much much much more easily. Finally out of interest do you have a link to the thread?

 

[webmigit]

And I have to add.. high performance websites run strong under CF, this forum itself was written in Cold Fusion... And it is really high traffic and runs just fine..

(The errors some of you might have seen are due to the database was getting bigger than the HD.. but that problem has been fixed. So actually the site is getting too big. But there are no performance issues that I've seen and I'm online all day and TT is my homepage.)

Also, as pigsie pointed out MM has integrated flash with cold fusion.. maybe future or current versions of other languages can interact with flash, but nothing can as well as cold fusion since the language and the multimedia platform were built/rebuilt/upgraded by the same company.

 

[multiplex77]

Hi,

Thanks for your advice.

The link to the thread is:
thread333-18365 How do you link to a thread?!!)

So it seems like even if CF doesn't have all the nice OO features, it is going to be in the upcoming MX version with all that Java integration.

I'm still curious to find out how the current CF 5 compares with ASP.Net.

Cheers,
multiplex