CFML Markdown using showdown.js http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4600535/implementating-showdown-js-markdown-parser-on-the-server-side-for-coldfusion

showdown.cfm

<!---
Have files showdown.js and a markdown file in the same directory.
--->
<cfscript>
manager = createObject("java", "javax.script.ScriptEngineManager").init();
jsEngine = manager.getEngineByName("js");

showdownJS = fileRead('#getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#/showdown.js');

jsEngine.eval(showdownJS);
showdownConverter = jsEngine.eval("new Showdown.converter()");

markdownString = fileRead("#getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#/markdown.txt");

args = [markdownString];

result = jsEngine.invokeMethod(
    showdownConverter,
    "makeHtml",
    args
) & "";
</cfscript>