Comments on: Dude, where’s my class? http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2007/02/09/dude-wheres-my-class/ Ashwin's musings on technology, music and just about anything else... Fri, 16 May 2008 03:09:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: ashwin http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2007/02/09/dude-wheres-my-class/#comment-157 ashwin Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:32:46 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2007/02/09/dude-wheres-my-class/#comment-157 Thanks for pointing this out, Dan - call it a case of too much Scorpio code of late, but I guess I didn't fully absorb what Robi was saying. It did, though, force a blog post out of me, which is not a bad thing! I've updated the post. Thanks for pointing this out, Dan - call it a case of too much Scorpio code of late, but I guess I didn’t fully absorb what Robi was saying. It did, though, force a blog post out of me, which is not a bad thing! I’ve updated the post.

]]> By: Dan G. Switzer, II http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2007/02/09/dude-wheres-my-class/#comment-156 Dan G. Switzer, II Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:54:40 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2007/02/09/dude-wheres-my-class/#comment-156 As Robi's blog stated, I was the one that asked him for the code. The problem I had was that I was trying to use the JavaMail API to send an attachment from a binary object already loaded in to memory. The JavaMail API requires some kind of class derived from the DataSource class in order to generate the attachment in the e-mail. JavaMail v1.3.1 (which is what CFMX uses) only comes with a FileDataSource class--which requires the binary data be written to disk. So, I was trying to find a quick method to search ColdFusion to see what classes I had access to. I could have written a ByteArrayDataSource (which is what most sites recommended for using w/JavaMail and binary data already loaded into memory,) but I didn't want to introduce an outside dependency. So, by searching through the JARs in the CFMX directory, I was able to find the OctetStreamDataSource in the axis.jar which I was able to leverage. You can read more at: http://blog.pengoworks.com/blogger/index.cfm?action=blog:584 As Robi’s blog stated, I was the one that asked him for the code. The problem I had was that I was trying to use the JavaMail API to send an attachment from a binary object already loaded in to memory.

The JavaMail API requires some kind of class derived from the DataSource class in order to generate the attachment in the e-mail. JavaMail v1.3.1 (which is what CFMX uses) only comes with a FileDataSource class–which requires the binary data be written to disk.

So, I was trying to find a quick method to search ColdFusion to see what classes I had access to. I could have written a ByteArrayDataSource (which is what most sites recommended for using w/JavaMail and binary data already loaded into memory,) but I didn’t want to introduce an outside dependency.

So, by searching through the JARs in the CFMX directory, I was able to find the OctetStreamDataSource in the axis.jar which I was able to leverage.

You can read more at:
http://blog.pengoworks.com/blogger/index.cfm?action=blog:584

]]> By: Ben Nadel http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2007/02/09/dude-wheres-my-class/#comment-155 Ben Nadel Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:28:03 +0000 http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin/2007/02/09/dude-wheres-my-class/#comment-155 Nice tip! I just tested it on jExcel JAR file and it found it quite well. This will be excellent for debugging. Nice tip! I just tested it on jExcel JAR file and it found it quite well. This will be excellent for debugging.

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