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There was a heck of a lot of Java out there used for web development around that time. But your point still stands - Java probably would've been a lot more diff

There was a heck of a lot of Java out there used for web development around that time. But your point still stands - Java probably would've been a lot more difficult to setup and maintain than CF.

porker 14y ago
Although if I remember rightly it wasn't in 2004, isn't CF now Java-powered under the surface?
- 127001brewer 14y ago
  Yes, ColdFusion is now Java-powered: "With the release of ColdFusion MX 6.0, the engine had been re-written in Java and supported its own runtime environment, which was easily replaced through its configuration options with the runtime environment from Sun. Version 6.1 included the ability to code and debug Shockwave Flash." [0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion#Other_features http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion#Other_features
moondowner 14y ago
I beg to differ. If it was a Java based solution maybe they would have migrated more easily. For example, Struts was released around 2000 (now we have much more choices regarding Java Web frameworks). Since then they could've migrated to Struts 2, and after that for example migrate to Spring MVC, or even stick with Struts 2.