We hear a lot of talk about using individual Java objects within ColdFusion but the reality of enterprise development is that entire subsystems tend to built entirely in Java. Software teams that serve the enterprise often build large, complex systems using Spring and Hibernate. How do you go about using ColdFusion with such systems? I haven't seen any presentations on this subject so I was pleasantly surprised when I started reviewing Andrew Powell's slide deck to find that he was focusing on how ColdFusion can provide the web front end to enterprise class Java systems.

He introduces Spring (the Java version) with a demo and then introduces Hibernate (the industry standard ORM for Java), again with a demo. After that, he will walk you through solutions to the problem of connecting ColdFusion on the front end to Spring on the backend and, using Mach-II as an example, he then shows how to create an MVC web application that allows you to leverage the entire Spring-powered, Hibernate-persisted Java backend.

If you work along a Java team - or you are considering using more Java for your backend systems - this talk will provide you with a lot of good information about how well ColdFusion plays in this space.

Still, I'm glad somebody is carrying the "Java and Spring on the back end/CF on the front end" torch for me moving forward. I'm all Java/Flex these days...

- max

And, as I recall, we did invite you to submit on that topic - but you asked to submit the Flex topic instead :)

I'm just trying to branch out a bit... I forgot that my cf.o() 2007 session was along the same lines: "Maximizing Your CF/Flex Applications with Java."

I'm not really doing much CF work these days, so I expect my presentations will be Flex/Java related moving forward.

- max