Graceful Exits

Or, how I learned to stop parsing and love the soup

Proof of concept, more than anything else: how to hook up to a recalcitrant Flash-based interface.

For reasons of speed I’m currently embedding Java in Coldfusion code. Given Coldfusion is built on Java, and can instantiate Java objects through createObject(”java”, class_name), you’d think that’d be reasonably easy. But the boundary between Coldfusion and Java is like the gap between two halves of a broken bone: jagged, bleeding-edged and painful when coerced [...]