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bilbo--baggins
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June 29, 2008
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Coldfusion with third party API's?

  • June 29, 2008
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We've just signed up to Constant Contact's Mailing list services, and not that they can provide an API to link their services to your own web application.

I'm in the early stages of learning coldfusion, and plan to convert our site to Coldfusion in the near future.

I vaguely what an API is meant to do, but can anyone give me some basic guidance as to whether using API's should be straightforward with Coldfusion (and therefore worth building into our web application from scratch) or is it a difficult/complex area worth avoiding until fully experienced with using Coldfusion?
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    Anonymous
    June 30, 2008
    It depends on the application that is providing the API. As you are probably aware that CF is all java under the hood so if the "Contant Contact" is build in Java/Groovy, it can be easily utilized by CF. Othewise in CF8, you can call .Net assemblies. Web Services are always an option to access any third party applications. Essentially CF is very ready to integrate with most third party applications.
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