The person asking the question appears to be someone without much experience in either language and is likely not a programming master with a 15 year work history. In theory, anybody can lean anything. I could become a brain surgeon if I really put my mind to it, but I don't think the original poster was looking for "you can do it!" motivation. If he tries to get a job doing Java programming, I don't think anyone would hire him and put him through an extensive training course. Most employers could easily find an inexperienced new college grad that at least knows Java, considering that is what most high schools and colleges teach.
I was saying the original statement is false since I would never trivialize the effort needed to become proficient in Java. Becoming a good Java programmer is not "easy," as the original statement was implying. It involves a lot of hard work and takes years. A CF site might benefit from adding in some Java code, but a Java-based Web site would never use CF code, so the "work hand in hand" part of the statement false, since that statement implies a benefit in both directions. Working "hand in hand" means both technologies are closely linked and are used together, which is almost never the case. I would estimate that around 1% of CF sites make use of significant Java code and 0% of Java-based Web sites make use of any CF code. I would agree that you can easily drop Java code into a CF site, but almost nobody does this in the current versions of CF since CF 9 provides nearly every feature a Web site could need without having to extend it in any significant way. -Mike Chabot On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Andrew Scott <andr...@andyscott.id.au>wrote: > > Actually than can work hand in hand, there are a lot of things that > ColdFusion can't do out of the box. But there is a massive library of Java > Code out there, with a small tweak can be written and leveraged of in > ColdFusion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:345460 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
