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One commonly overlooked feature of ColdFusion is its ability to interact with objects external to the ColdFusion Application Server. These objects can be third-party software packages such as Microsoft Office, or they can be custom objects created by the developer. Although external objects come in different flavors, such as COM and DCOM and CORBA, this chapter focuses on the implementation of COM in ColdFusion.