I was gonna write a chunk of stuff here about

import

aliasing in CFML, but decided to stick it in a blog article instead. https://blog.adamcameron.me/2022/04/cfml-revisit-import-aliasing.html. Input welcome.

Here, I solved your problem. You're welcome.

import com.vendor.app.*;
VendorDate = "package.Date";
venDate = new "#VendorDate#"();

Ok, so maybe "solved" is too strong a word 😉. I did find it interesting that CF actually allows the above syntax, though. Where else can you put parentheses after a quoted string?