Coldfusion UI Tags? No thanks!

I have been experimenting with the new coldfusion UI tags since the pre-release program some time ago and the more I use them the more I realize that some of them just aren't really all that useful, and the others only marginally so.

I think I will probably get some use out of the CFLAYOUT and CFWINDOW tags but to be quite honest if I need a grid or a tree I will most likely skip over the CF implementations and go with the EXTJS tree and grid. They are a heck of a lot more configurable, I have access to all the functionality offered whereas with the CF versions I am limited to the functionality and init config options that they thought would be most useful.

I could, perhaps, finagle my way to getting what I need using the ColdFusion.Grid.getGridObject and ColdFusion.Tree.getTreeObject, but with the grid being Ext and the tree being a Yahoo widget it isn't the easiest thing to do, especially if I know that if I used the grid as it was first of all I would have what I wanted immediately without the hassle.

Don't get me wrong the Adobe team did a good job of providing us developers with easier methods of integrating Ajax into our applications but in the end I will probably end up writing custom tags that will give me the flexibility that I need.

I hope others find these new UI tags more useful than the old ones, which I can honestly say I never used.