Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / February 2008

I'm looking into migrating a CF 8 server from Windows to Unix.  I see in the
documentation for CreateObject that com objects are not supported on Unix,
"Note: On UNIX, this function does not support COM objects."

Obviously, this won't work on Unix: Note:
  <cfset image = CreateObject( 'com', 'ImageStoreCom.Image' )>

But what about this, can I create a remote com object?:
<!-- assume '172.0.0.1' is a windows machine with a registered com object on
it -->
  <cfset image = CreateObject( 'com', 'ImageStoreCom.Image', 'remote',
'172.0.0.1' )

Finally, if the example above is out of the question, are then any techniques
for exposing a com object to CF on a Unix box?  I'm wondering if maybe I could
write a Java wrapper for the com object and expose it that way?

Thanks for your help,
DJ