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Recent Blog Comments By Matthew Lesko

• Maintaining ColdFusion Query Data Type Integrity Throughout The Serialization Life Cycle

  Posted on Jan 19, 2010 at 2:58 PM

  Out of curiosity have you tried working with Java object serialization? Understand this introduces it's own set of problems, but I think it would be interesting to include in the analysis you've presented thus far, especially how it would interact with query data.... read more »

• XML Building / Parsing / Traversing Speed In ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 9, 2008 at 12:44 PM

  @Ben Using XOM you don't deal with the SAX API. Instead you use XOM's API which is similar to how Coldfusion works with XML, but has the advantage of being backed by SAX parser instead, which is more memory efficient than the DOM parser CF is using.... read more »

• XML Building / Parsing / Traversing Speed In ColdFusion

  Posted on Sep 5, 2008 at 8:36 PM

  CF XML processing is slow and memory intensive because it uses a DOM processor (Xerces), which has to represent the entire document in memory to work with it. My preferred alternative is XOM (http://www.xom.nu/), which provides a very nice API atop a SAX processor instead, which is considerably f... read more »

• Copying Children From One ColdFusion XML Document To Another

  Posted on May 14, 2007 at 12:57 PM

  Working with XML in Coldfusion is painful and slow. There are much better Java library options available. My blog entry details the problems and a solution using XOM and a StAX processor: read more »