Chapter 21 Building Custom Cfxapi Tags - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5-DEVELOPING Develop Manual

Chapter 21
Building Custom CFXAPI Tags
Sometimes, the best approach is to develop elements of your application by building
executables to run with ColdFusion. Perhaps the application requirements go
beyond what is currently feasible in CFML. Perhaps you can improve application
performance for certain types of processing.
To meet these types of requirements, you can use the ColdFusion Extension
Application Programming Interface (CFXAPI) to access ColdFusion functions.
This chapter documents custom tag development using Java or C++, however, it is
also possible to develop tags in Borland's Delphi.
Contents
What Are CFX Tags?................................................................................................. 390
Before You Begin Developing CFX Tags in Java..................................................... 391
Writing a Java CFX ................................................................................................... 393
ZipBrowser Example ............................................................................................... 397
Approaches to Debugging Java CFXs..................................................................... 398
Customizing and Configuring Java ........................................................................ 392
Developing CFX Tags in C++ .................................................................................. 401
Registering CFXs...................................................................................................... 404
Distributing CFX Tags ............................................................................................. 405