The Left Side of Normal Airplanes, The Internet, and Everything Else

As anyone who works with ColdFusion knows, it's built on top of Java.  It also provides ways to easily leverage pretty much anything Java is capable of.  I saw a post from Todd Sharp about using the "faint" Java project to enable facial recognition in ColdFusion.  You would think that something like this would be fairly complex, but all of the hard work has been wrapped up in the faint engine.  With ColdFusion, a few lines of code loads the Java object, sets up a Java thumbnail object, then points the faint engine at an image an asks it to find the faces in the image.  Easy!  Java passes the results back to ColdFusion which then writes the images to disk.  This could be great for helping users to crop uploaded avatar images or create a facial thumbnail for dating sites.  Of course the amazing part about this isn't the facial recognition, but the ability for ColdFusion to simply pick up any Java class and use it without any fuss.