Summary by Judith Dinowitz
Using some of CFMX 7's undocumented features, Doug Hughes shows us a technique for doing asynchronous processes on CFMX 7 Professional (not Enterprise). First, Doug created a Java class named Threader, which implements Java's Runnable interface. This interface allows for the run() method in the Threader to be executed Asynchronously. There's much more detail in his article, where he explains what attributes the Threader's constructor accepts, and how it uses the undocumented CFCProxy in CF 7 to create an instance of the CFC identified in the constructor and to execute the identified method asynchronously. As an education in a method that uses the Java underlying ColdFusion to do things with Professional that are not available as native features, this article is a must-read. ColdFusion with Java Inside (Doug Hughes' Blog, August 17, 2005)