What do I mean by contact list importer? Well, join any 'social network' nowadays and you'll likely be presented with a utility to allow you to invite your friends to that network by importing your contact list from GMail, Yahoo Mail, etc. These utilities are pretty nice, but if you think about it the code behind them is pretty powerful.

To expand a bit on my last post I wanted to brainstorm on some more potential enhancements for CF 9's potential Hibernate integration. Specifically I'd like to propose the ability to define validations within an object. I know some folks cringe when it comes to this topic, but check out my pseudo code below. I think what I propose could really work, and greatly simplify validation while still being powerful (with potential custom validations).

With commentary by yours truly... I wanted to point everyone to a short series of blog posts by Dan Vega where he discusses the future potential features of ColdFusion as shown by Adam Lehman and Ben Forta at CFUnited 2008. The Future of ColdFusion Part 1 The Future of ColdFusion Part 2 The Future of ColdFusion Part 3 Part 3 discusses the Hibernate integration that Adam demo'd during the keynote. I'm particularly intrigued by the prospect of this.

I'm abusing the blog a bit here by asking a question, but are there any folks with experience integrating OpenOffice with CF out there? I'm really looking for a basic quick start guide for getting started. What do I need installed on the server? I did some quick tests last night but couldn't even get past creating the bootstrap object to connect to OO. In my first attempt tried using JavaLoader to load up the OO jars, but got an 'no office executable found' exception.