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cfobject
Description
Creates a ColdFusion object, of a specified type.
Note: You can enable and disable this tag in the ColdFusion Administrator page, under ColdFusion
Basic Security, Tag Restrictions.
Category
Extensibility tags
Syntax
The tag syntax depends on the object type. Some types use the type attribute; others do not. See
the following sections:
• “cfobject: COM object” on page 254
• “cfobject: component object” on page 256
• “cfobject: CORBA object” on page 257
• “cfobject: Java or EJB object” on page 259
• “cfobject: web service object” on page 261
Note: On UNIX, this tag does not support COM objects.
See also
cfargument, cfcomponent, cffunction, cfinvoke, cfinvokeargument, cfproperty,
cfreturn
History
ColdFusion MX:
• Changed instantiation behavior: this tag, and the CreateObject function, can now instantiate
ColdFusion components (CFCs); you can use them within the
cfscript tag.
• For CORBA object: changed the Naming Service separator format for addresses from a dot to
a forward slash. For example, if "
context=NameService", for a class, use either of the
following formats for the
class parameter:
■ "Macromedia/Eng/CF"
■ "Macromedia.current/Eng.current/CF"
(In earlier releases, the format was "
Macromedia.Eng.CF".)
• For CORBA object: changed the locale attribute; it specifies the Java config that contains the
properties file.