Japub

Yes, thats right. Use Coldfusion to run Drupal. Sean Corfield, has created a custom tag for Coldfusion 8 (in beta) which will allow you to execute PHP code using Quercus. Quercus is a PHP 5 interpreter for Java, which means it compiles PHP to Java classes. There are many benefits for using a Java/PHP interpreter which are listed on the Quercus homepage.

Coldfusion is a well known rapid development language by Adobe and is not a stranger to being compiled down to Java classes since version 7. The XML tag based language has tight integration with Adobe's Flex Builder 2.0 through its flex builder extension and Java.

Drupal is an extremely powerful and highly configurable CMS framework written in PHP which enables developers to rapidly build web applications. Mashing Coldfusion and Drupal together could produce powerful results quickly and harness two great rapid application development tools.

Enabling developers to mash languages together can have dramatic effects good and bad. Applications written in different languages could be mashed together and capitalize on each others requirements, development, testing, and support communities. However I am skeptical the possibility of maintenance nightmares, performance, and other unknown outcomes.

Quercus and the Coldfusion PHP code execution custom tag is in beta format right now with a bright future as another tool for rapidly developing applications. I would not install it on production today, but certainly investigate it and as it matures it might make a project in the future go very quickly.