CREATEOBJECT: COMPONENT OBJECT |
Description The CreateObject function can create an instance of a ColdFusion component (CFC) object.
Returns A component object.
Function syntax
    CreateObject(type, component-name)
See also Chapter 10, "Building and Using ColdFusion Components" in ColdFusion MX Developer's Guide
Parameters
Usage On UNIX systems, ColdFusion searches first for a file with a name that matches the specified component name, but is all lowercase. If it does not find the file, it looks for a file name that matches the component name exactly, with the identical character casing.

In the following example, the CFScript statements assign the tellTimeCFC variable to the tellTime component using the CreateObject function. The CreateObject function references the component in another directory. To invoke component methods, you use function syntax.

    <b>Server's Local Time:</b>
    <cfscript>
       tellTimeCFC=CreateObject("component","appResources.components.
          tellTime");
       tellTimeCFC.getLocalTime();
    </cfscript>
    <br>
    <b>Calculated UTC Time:</b>
    <cfscript>
       tellTimeCFC.getUTCTime();
    </cfscript>

TYPE |

Type of object to create.

- com
- corba
- java
- component
- webservice

COMPONENT-NAME |

The CFC name; corresponds to the name of the file that defines the component; for example, use engineComp to specify the component defined in the engineComp.cfc file