From Macromedia:

The problem lies in the cfx code itself. The cfx doesn`t call CoInitialize(NULL) to init the ADSI COM object. This code worked ok on the native langauge (c++) based CF platform (<=CF5), but now that we`re on Java we don`t get the init call for free. If you add the CoInitialize() and CoUninitialize() you`ll get a little further.

There is a MS KB article covering this:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=171724

It looks like this project needs some updating to run from the Java platform. Luckily the source is available from Intrafoundation.

void ProcessTagRequest( CCFXRequest* pRequest )
{
try
{
::CoInitialize(NULL); //<-------line 6208 inside the processTagReqest


seconds.Format("%u",span.GetTotalSeconds());
pRequest->SetVariable( "IISSeconds", seconds);

::CoUninitialize(); //<---------line 6334 before the function closes.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=171724

That's what I love about open-source -- it lets other people find your mistakes. :)

As I mentioned to someone from Macromedia it was a surprise to me the code didn't call coinit. It was in there at one time. It probably got misplaced while doing copy/pastes in the haste to release the project as open-source when I had to drop it because of an exclusivity clause with a new job a few years back.

At any rate, although it doesn't SAY it's different, the version of IHTK downloadable NOW was recompiled with the fix today. If I have the time this weekend I might even change the documention to reflect this. :)

--min