Protecting Source Code

[Guest]

I am developing and application that I am planning on "leasing" out to busnesses but to keep my source code safe I will only allow the application to be run under a hosting account that I control so that the source is not subject to being stolen. Other then cfencrypt (which can be decrypted) is there a way for me to distribute my application to companies that want to outright purchase it and allow them to install it on a different server yet protecting the source code? Can I compile it into .jar files and us it that way? And if so how do I do that?

Thanks,

[dacf]

You can deploy as a J2EE application, see:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/deploying_4.html#117456

Also for some tips from the trenches:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/ear.html

One caveat, the people you sell the application to _must_ have a valid Enterprise copy of CF or it will not deploy.

hehe, never done the above tho!