Comments on: ColdFusion Structures: Differences in Version 7 and 8

By: Matthew Abbott

Matthew Abbott — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:26:10 +0000

Great post Javi. I couldnt add a comment earlier. Anyway…
Gotta love doing a little under the hood work with coldfusion :) CF/Java fun stuff!!
Cheers man!

By: Javier Julio

Javier Julio — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:04:51 +0000

Rakshith, thanks! When are you going to share the code for that CFU presentation you made on the AJAX features in CF8? It was using a combination of just about all the AJAX tags and cfexchange. Let me know! :)

By: Rakshith

Rakshith — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:33:10 +0000

Javier,
Nice to see you blogging! Keep the posts coming in.

By: Javier Julio

Javier Julio — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:54:21 +0000

Peter,
Thanks for the comment! I’m hoping to get in the swing of things here. I think this would be a great opportunity for me to see if blogging is something I’d like to do more regularly. I’ve never gotten into it but had tried.
You know my secrets! Originally my first blog post was about my CSS Framework (or library, base, whatever you want to call it) but I need more time to write it up. I see it more as a series of blog posts like some of yours that you’ve done. I will let you know though once I do post up something on it!

By: Peter Bell

Peter Bell — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:46:08 +0000

Good to see you blogging! Pretty hardcore details though – clearly you’re hanging out with Ben too much :->
What about something about your cool CSS work for the next posting?!

By: Javier Julio

Javier Julio — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:10:18 +0000

I didn’t think about that and I should have. With my recent experience in Flex and ActionScript I remember once I had to specify a function argument of not a certain data type like String or Boolean but an interface. For some reason I was thinking of type checking as only that simple but you can type check against a class, even an interface. Thanks for clarifying Avi.

By: Avi Flax

Avi Flax — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:22:27 +0000

Javier, I think what Mark’s alluding to is the fact that the java.util.hashtable class from which CF7’s structure is extended, and the coldfusion.util.FastHashtable class from which CF8’s structure is extended, both implement the interface Map. So, if he had written his code to refer to that interface, instead of specifying concrete classes, there’s a good chance the library would have been forwards-compatible with CF8. No worries though Mark, that’s a very understandable case – when writing Java code, it’s hard to remember to declare variables as interfaces rather than the concrete classes we’re actually working with.

By: hibiscusroto (Chris Vigliotti)

hibiscusroto (Chris Vigliotti) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:26:21 +0000

Nice job Javi. I look forward to reading more from you.

By: javierj

javierj — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:12:33 +0000

Mark,
How though would it be able to accept a java.util.Map if a CF struct doesn’t even have a super class of that type? Would the AsyncHTTP library have to create a java class of that type then add in the struct data?
No big deal at all! Since we have moved to CF8 all the features of the library are now built in. Again thanks Mark, much appreciated!

By: Mark Mandel

Mark Mandel — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:40:58 +0000

Javier,
Happy to help out!
In retrospect, I should have made the get/post interface take a java.util.Map rather than a Hashtable, but, ah well, no big deal there.
Glad you got it all sorted! ;oD