CF 5: Viable Alternative to Java!
Infoworld's Mike Heck took a look at ColdFusion Server 5.0's ability to create user-defined functions as well as custom tags to Web-applications and concludes that it provides a good alternative to Java. Some of the things he cites are an increase in speed and performance, and the new incremental page delivery feature.
Viable Java Alternative (Infoworld, June 4, 2001)