Aaron Johnson

Last month I introduced you to Lucene and then showed you how you can access the Jakarta Lucene APIs using native CFML scripting syntax. This month I'm going to show you how easy it is to create a Java CFX tag that performs the same functions as the two tags I illustrated last month: and . As a short review of last month and as many of you know already, one of the many reasons to use ColdFusion MX is that it comes standard with the majority of the tools you'll need to write full-featured, dynamic Web applications. Tags like and make it relatively simple to query a relational database and send e-mail. In the same way, you can use and to create and search Verity full text indexes. There are, however... (more)

Mailets and Matchers

Apache James is a full-featured SMTP, POP3, and NNTP server built using 100% Java and more importantly it's been designed from the ground up to be a mail application platform Anyone who's spent any time working on an application that sends e-mails has come across more than his fair share of bounced e-mails. If you actually read the bounced e-mails, you probably noticed that many of them e... (more)

Integrating log4j and CFMX

Unless you've never developed a Web application, or for that matter, an application of any size, you've undoubtedly encountered a situation where the application wasn't doing what it was doing when you developed it ("It worked fine for me!") or when it was tested ("I swear we tested this!"). The application might be slow, it could be throwing a SQL error, or maybe a form submission is cau... (more)

Extending ColdFusion with Java

One of the many reasons to use ColdFusion MX is that it comes standard with the majority of the tools you'll need to write full-featured, dynamic Web applications. Tags like and make it relatively simple to query a relational database and send e-mail. In the same way, you can use and to create and search Verity full-text indexes. There are, however, a couple of situations when you can't u... (more)