Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / May 2008

I want to protect my application from being modified/stolen by others, so I
need to go through and compile my CF code into byte code. I've done that before
and it works fine.

However now I have a delima. With CF8 out I want to make use of the new
CFImage tag instead of relying on third party image components that do not seem
to work with our main hosting provider.

So I need to include code such as:

If CFVersion is 8
    Use CFImage
else
    Use third party
end if

However older versions of CF see the CFImage tag and throw a fit, and won't
even do anything with the page.

I assume this would also happen if I compiled the code and then tried to run
it on an older version of CF as well.

Is there anyway I could work around this, or do I have to tell everyone "Too
bad upgrade to CF8" ?