On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:24:30 -0700, Dick Applebaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jun 28, 2004, at 5:16 PM, Matt Woodward wrote:
>
> > >So, CF programs can be run without a browser.
> > >
> > >Now, if you don't need a browser, why do you need a web server?
> > >
> > >Dick
> >
> > The point I got from this (and as Ben Forta said, this is one of
> > those things that two weeks from now I'll think "HOLY COW!" and have a
> > perfect example of how cool this is going to be) was not that the goal
> > was to eliminate the browser, but rather to open up all the other
> > possibilities that are either difficult or impossible to do in CF
> > today. I'm sure we'll be writing web applications that run in a
> > browser or Flash or whatever new technology comes out next for a long
> > time to come, but these gateways will allow us to talk to anything any
> > time using any protocol, without kludging things together or always
> > being stuck with the http way of doing things.
> >
>
> Matt
>
> Exactly!
>
> I don't want to give up the browser/web server but have them as
> optional facilities.
>
> I have always maintained that CF provides a superior way of
> implementing some apps -- and the browser interface was just a
> necessary evil.
>
> I have programmed a lot of languages, but for certain things, like ad
> hoc db reports, CF is unequalled (IMO).
>
> So, I guess I could put a Swing front end on a CFMX app and run on the
> desktop?
>
> Dick
>
>
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