As usual it's been too long between drinks... or posts as it were. I've been sooo busy with work, hobby projects and family to post much recently, but I just don't want anyone to think I've fallen off the planet. I didn't really think I had too much to share, but someone may find my recent experience with event gateways useful.  
At work we're creating a java app that will synchronise with our cold fusion messaging system. The question was ... how do we get it to talk to the cold fusion business model on the server side. Well, you guested it, event gateways came to the rescue.
CF7 ships with a built in tcp/ip socket gateway that passes simple strings back and forth between the client and the listener cfc. It manages the threads for each socket and provides some helper functions to pass information back into the listener.
I modified this to use object I/O streams to pass serialized java objects back and forth between the client and the listener. It's kinda cool. Now I can transfer data objects and serialised files back and forth to my java client directly from CF.  
I guess I'm posting this to see if anyone else out there has had experience with this sort of thing or has any better idea's.