So I was reading a blog entry on Ben Nadel’s site about him trying to do function pointers in ColdFusion. It seems that a solution was never presented to him, though I am not sure as the entry is nearly a month old. I decided to play with the concept and met with some success. Using reflection in Java I was able to dynamically bind to and call a ColdFusion function. I only had success with the functions that had only string parameters, and had failure with functions that had integer arguments. I suspect it is a problem with the class type. Not sure. But here is an example of using reflection in ColdFusion to call the COMPARE function.

NOTE: Code missing

Interesting, eh?