For those who don't remember, Spectra was an Adobe application framework that provided a web based desktop and work flow capabilities on top of ColdFusion, that has since been retired and then open sourced.
But it turns out that the ghost lives on, because if you ask ColdFusion's document indexing service, Verity, for information about a collection, it lets you know that a ghost created it :-)
# ./mkvdk -collection /opt/coldfusion8/verity/collections/aCollectionName/ -about
mkvdk - Verity, Inc. Version 5.5.0 (_ilnx21, Sep 4 2006)
Collection about resources:
Creation Date: 06-Apr-2009 15:43:18 pm
...
Collection Creator: SPECTRA
Put another way...
... you might say that the spectre of spectra lives in ColdFusion 8.
Sorry, it just had to be said. ;-)
<groan> and to think I
<groan> and to think I resisted :-)
Sweet. Folks may not know this, but some CF functions were specifically added to help w/ Spectra.
In a former life, I was the community manager for Spectra. One of the most enjoyable jobs I ever had.