10.8. What's Next?
In this chapter we covered ways to extend ColdFusion with Java. You can write ColdFusion CFX custom tags using the ColdFusion interface for Java. You learned how to call Java objects from inside ColdFusion and use <cfobject> and the native ColdFusion function JavaCast() to differentiate between Java data types.
Applets may or may not have a significant future. For now, people are using them to write stock ticker applications and perform graphics manipulation. It is expected that Java WebStart, which we examine later in this book, will become the client-side venue of choice for client-side Java applications because of its superior power and its imperviousness to the browser wars.
In the next chapter, we cover Collections. The ...
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