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)

Usage
On UNIX systems, ColdFusion searches first for a file with a name that matches the specified component name, but is all lower case. 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. For more information, see Chapter 11, "Building and Using ColdFusion Components," in Developing ColdFusion MX Applications.

Example

    <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