New Atlanta has made quite a good living "migrating" folks from "legacy" coldfusion to .Net or JEE. The reality is they come into companies still running ColdFusion 5 or older and move them onto New Atlanta's licenced CFML engines (BlueDragon) for the appropriate platform be it .Net or JEE. Now honestly I doubt there are enough large companies out there interested in it so I would say its not the best career move but it is feasible to fit into that space and use OpenBD or Railo. If I were a Java shop I would be leary of CFML as it is a different language (regardless of the easy of picking it up). You might be better served selling your skills as a java presentation layer consultant, which really is where CFML can fit very nicely in a JEE architecture, its a crap ton better than other frameworks in that space in my opinion (JSP, JSF, Tapestry).
Adam On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dakota Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Wow ... thanks for the enlightenment Dave. I know CF programs aren't > "written" in Java, but they can be run on J2EE servers, where other > previously programmed Java/JSP apps may be running. > Perhaps a better question would have been to ask whether any of you CF Pros > have persuaded someone looking to build their new web app with JSP on a > J2EE > server ... to instead use ColdFusion ... either as a deployable container > ala "Railo", or Adobe CF8 Enterprise. > ~ Dakota > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For those of you CF developers > > > that deploy your apps to J2EE Servers > > > (or servlet containers, as is the case > > > with Tomcat), have you been successful > > > in situations where the employer > > > wanted a Java Developer, and after > > > talking to you with your CF skillset, > > > felt comfortable they were serving their > > > need for a Java Developer? > > > > If you can competently write programs in Java, you are a Java developer. > CF > > programs are not written in Java. If anyone here can answer your > question > > in the affirmative, the employer in question does not understand what > Java > > development is. > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313089 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
