User Guide

528 Chapter 3: ColdFusion Functions
CreateObject: COM object
Description
The CreateObject function can create a Component Object Model (COM) object.
To create a COM object, you must provide this information:
• The object’s program ID or filename
• The methods and properties available to the object through the IDispatch interface
• The arguments and return types of the object's methods
For most objects, you can get this information from the OLEView utility.
Note: On UNIX, this function does not support COM objects.
Returns
A COM object.
Function syntax
CreateObject(type, class, context, serverName)
See also
ReleaseComObject
, cfobject; Chapter 38, “Integrating COM and CORBA Objects in CFML
Applications” in ColdFusion MX Developer’s Guide.
Parameters
Parameter Description
type Type of object to create.
• com
• corba
• java
• component
• webservice
class Component ProgID for the object to invoke
context • InProc
• Local
• Remote
serverName Server name, using UNC or DNS convention, in one of these forms:
• \\lanserver
• lanserver
• http://www.servername.com
• www.servername.com
• 127.0.0.1
If
context = "remote", this parameter is required.