We really shouldn't give this person anymore traffic. Apart from the posting being majorly old, his blog is basically a barren wasteland and he probably posted that for the sole purpose of generating traffic to his site. Apart from 1 or 2 postings, he has zero comments in almost every post since he started his blog. IMO, he merits exactly zero attention from us.

Good point Rey. Don't read it, people!

All coldfusion is now is an oldschool scripting language being interpreted by a Java server. If you are one of those unlucky companies that wasted your money on a Coldfusion server, hire Java developers and move away from CF to Java, because you can program in Java on a CF server and it makes more sense to do so since Java is more powerful. Sure you can go the highschool programmer way and use a CFScript tag and put cheesy javascriptized java in it, but that's just asinine.

Ah, spoken like a true Javaphyte! Perhaps there IS some hint of validity in saying that because a language is more cryptic,requires years of schooling, and more actual lines of code to accomplish a task, that it is more powerful. Or IS there validity in that observation???? Perhaps, too, the Pony Express was a more "powerful" means of disseminating the mail than is, say, email, because it required such extreme logistical prowess and sheer number of bodies to accomplish its mission? The truth is, the people who cling to the myth that their language is "more powerful" are the same kind of people who, with no valid practical reason, buy large pickup trucks: they're trying to compensate for some deep-seated, behind the scenes insecurity they harbor about themselves as a person. Because in Java I am forced to write many lines of code to connect to a database and retrieve a data set (and let's not talk about how many lines of code I might need to iterate OVER that data and actually do something with it) while in a scripted language like, say, Coldfusion, I can do it in one line, does that make Java "more powerful"??? HECK no, especially when my "dead language" is simply tapping the interfaces Java already provides me while simultaneously allowing me, if I wish, to execute Java code directly. Ah, and let's not forget the fact that in many arenas, the Javaphytes have THEMSELVES adopted the way of the "high school programmer" and have created for themselves...what? TAG LIBRARIES! Yay! Why? Because some of the Javaphytes became enlightened and began packaging up certain of Java's functions in simple to read, simple to type, simple to use...tags. And what is Coldfusion, my Javaphyte friends? It is an extremely robust tag library for Java. Now isn't that the pot calling the kettle black.

Besides being of the firm opinion that the world, when taken as a whole, is mildly retarded, I am also of the firm opinion that there are those developers out there who directly derive their own sense of self-worth from how overly complicated and complex they can make a simple task. After all, if I devise a system of pullies, ropes, and ramps to move my chair across the room, aren't I smarter than the person who simply rolls it over there by hand? In case you didn't figure it out, the answer is "No, you're not smarter than the person who just rolled it over there".

Anyway, thanks the entertaining peek into the mind of a Javaphyte, Rey! :) Oh, and be sure and avoid using any Java tag libraries...someone might see you.

Use whatever you need to use to get the job done quickly and effectively with minimal maintenance and the scalability needed.