Occasionally when working with Java classes in ColdFusion MX gold you receive an error message, java.lang.IllegalAccessException. Why did you receive this when the method you’re calling is public? Why do we care since it’s been fixed in ColdFusion MX 6.1?
The answer to the first question leads into the second–exploring these issues helps us learn more about how ColdFusion MX works.
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As an enterprise customer one of my favorite new features of ColdFusion MX 6.1 is the new licensing. It will give us much greater flexibility in changing our installations from their current CFMX Enterprise traditional installation to a real J2EE solution.
Also many new features and fixes in CFMX 6.1, aka RedSky. Here’s my views on those.
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The question of splitting a full name into first, middle, and last came up today in the forums. This is a pretty common question with many possible solutions. I came up one solution which is a CFMX UDF that utilizes regular expressions to match the different possible combinations of individual names.
The question of unzipping a file came up on the forums again. I’ve always replied that they can use CFX_Zip in CF5 and the java.util.zip package in CFMX. Never having had to actually use this myself in a ColdFusion application, I never relalized that java.util.zip is not all that straightforward.
After some research and one server crash, I put together this UDF.
Ran into a few instances of Thread Hijacking today. Not sure if the term is clear–what I mean is if one person posts a question in a forum starting a new thread and then another person posts a new question as a response in the same thread. Is anyone else bothered by this or is it just me?
We end up with two different questions in the same thread and two different conversations intermingled. Intermingling is nice in the real world–especially for those of us computer geeks held up in basement offices that look more like NASA than my real NASA office–but for forum threads, intermingling is bad.
It’d be easier to get answers to your question is you post it as a new question as opposed to a response to an existing question. It’s more curteous to the original poster and to everyone participating.