Firstly, what is Spring? Spring is a Java based 'dependency injection' framework, which is a complicated name for something that simply 'helps objects to talk to each other' in a well designed way. Spring is the framework that was the basis for the popular ColdFusion dependency injection framework, ColdSpring.

Learn more about dependency injection in ColdFusion

Visit the ColdSpring site

Visit the Spring site

So why use Spring? Typically you would not need to, but using Spring in a ColdFusion application is only applicable when you want to develop larger aspects of your application in Java rather than CFML. This may be useful, for example, if you were to develop your business logic layer in Java and use CFML for your views.

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Update 13 May 2008: This project has been moved over to RIA Forge at http://systemcommand.riaforge.org/

This is an update to a previous entry.

Typically when you want to execute a system command you would use the <cfexecute> tag, but there are some situations when this may not be ideal such as when you want to capture both the "standard output" and "error output" streams of the system command.

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