Let's say you have a travel website. *waits* Ok.
Your end user expects to see rates for multiple airlines which you have available in your database. Your end user also expects to see any bargain rates available, but your airline vendors don't give you that information. They have a contract with a 3rd party company who provides that information to travel sites and companies. That 3rd party will give you access to these bargain fares (for a price), but they can only give you access to them via an XML feed or a secured webservice. How can you access their information with CF 4.5 or 5.0? CF 4.5 can't do XML. It can do WDDX, but that's not what the vendor is providing. If you're on Windows, there is a custom tag for CF 5 (soXML) that can read XML. If you're on Linux, you're out of luck unless you have the time to write one yourself. Interaction with Java from CF5 was spotty IIRC, so talking to a Java-based XML parser was difficult. CFMX (6.0) gave us native XML tools and webservices. It's a piece of cake to import, parse and display XML data or to "talk" to 3rd party vendors via webservices now. So by staying with older technology, the end user is limited in what a website provides because the developer is limited in what can be provided. The end user will just go find another website that provides what they want. HTH, Adrian J. Moreno >> ColdFusion 4.5?!?! That takes me back. > >Guess I'm just stuck in the past... FWIW, tell me one >thing that is dramatically different on the "user end" of >a website experience that can be done with CF7 that >can't with CF 4.5 (anything not native to CF7 doesn't count) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248886 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
