Did we ever get a better way to create Java objects than

createObject()

? I think Lucee has a more integrated syntax but I can't remember whether the tickets requesting better syntax in ACF ever happened?

I believe in 2021 you can do

new java(“path.to.class”)

. There are also options for defining entire Java classes in a CFM as well as extending classes or implementing interfaces from a CFC.

Correct. That

new java

change was added in CF2018 though. The native definitions are CF2021.

So

s = new java("java.lang.String").init("Hello, World!");

... ugh! Not really much better than

s = createObject("java", "java.lang.String").init("Hello, World!");

(the ACF docs seem to really suck in this area)

I agree. The suggestion was

s = new java:java.lang.String("Hello, World!")

but that was ignored apparently.

Don't get me started on bizarre language level decisions in the face of superior suggestions from the community...