Chapter 80. Working with Gateways

In This Chapter

What Is an Event Gateway? 597 Creating an Initiator Application Using the ColdFusion Gateway 605 Debugging CFML Applications for Event Gateways 607 Creating Your Own Custom Gateways 608 A POP3 Custom Gateway 612

ColdFusion MX 7 introduced some exciting new features into the ColdFusion developer’s repertoire, including the ColdFusion event gateway. Event gateways are to application server environments what the CFQUERY tag was to database interaction. As you will see, the event gateway technology transforms ColdFusion 8 from just another Web application server to an enterprise services platform, allowing ColdFusion 8 applications to work with just about any other application and/or platform over any well-defined protocol including SMS, RMI, MQ, JSM, AMS, TCP, and UDP. If you have ever worked with message-oriented middleware, much of the paradigm behind event gateways will be obvious to you. On the other hand, if you’ve not, the ColdFusion event gateway operates like MOM.