Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development

Chapter 30. Extending ColdFusion with CFX

IN THIS CHAPTER

What Are CFX Tags? 1

Introducing the CFX API 3

Writing CFX Tags with Java 8

Writing CFX Tags with Visual C++ 24

Generating Debug Output 38

Returning Structures from CFX Tags 39

Using CFX Tags Safely: Locking and Thread Safety 43

Using CFX Tags with Previous Versions of ColdFusion 44

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