CFML Example of PEGDOWN (https://github.com/sirthias/pegdown)

gistfile1.cfm

<!--- Load some demo markdown content --->
<cfset markdownString = fileRead("#getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#/demo.txt")>

<!--- Directory containing all the necessary jar files. --->
<cfset jarDir = "#getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#pegdown" />

<!--- Array of necessary classes --->
<cfset jClass = [
        "#jarDir#/parboiled-java-1.1.3.jar"
        ,   "#jarDir#/asm-all-4.1.jar"
        ,   "#jarDir#/parboiled-core-1.1.3.jar"
        , "#jarDir#/pegdown-1.2.1.jar"
        ] />
<cfset javaloader = createObject('component','components.javaloader.JavaLoader').init(jClass, false) />

<!--- Hex values for different extensions can be found in org.pegdown.Extensions.java (0x20 is for tables support) --->
<cfset variables.pegdown = javaloader.create("org.pegdown.PegDownProcessor").init(javaCast("int", InputBaseN("0x20", 16))) />

<!--- Output the HTML conversion --->
<cfoutput>#variables.pegdown.markdownToHtml(markdownString)#</cfoutput>