<![CDATA[> But a lot of
> people don't know enough about CFML to consider it a viable
alternative
> to JSP and / or they believe the FUD - Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt -
> spread by CF's detractors...
Well, if you ever used CF3.0, which had NO proper way to handle
multithreaded session requests, and had a lot of ridiculous restrictions
on
the usage of tags, or the collosal POS that was CF4.0 (quite possibly
the
WORST application web server ever made - I still can't believe that
piece of
garbage made it to market), I can see how people don't exactly trust CF
these days...
Of course that was over 4 years ago... a lifetime in Internet terms.
CF 3 did have threading issues - but was otherwise a HUGE leap foreward:
intergrated Search engine, full mail support (albeit a bit broken),
custom tags, etc. CF 4 also had problems of course and we might
consider CF 4.5 the first "modern" version of CF.
However it's riduculous to compare those versions to the modern
versions: remembe what ELSE was available then? NOTHING was very good
at the time (well, except for Perl, I suppose). WebPlus a poor CF clone,
Java was so much in it's infancy you couldn't really build squat (except
for memory-leak-ridden applets), ASP was promising but had some SEVERE
problems of it's own.
Compared to what was available at the time CF 3 and 4 were actually
about evenly placed, I think. We built some damn fine applications on
them (actually we built some damn fine applications on versions 1.5 and
2 as well).
I agree that people seem to be carrying outdated impressions of CF - but
why just CF? You rarely hear people complaining about ASP's threading
model (which inversion 1.0 REALLY sucked) but I still hear people
spouting off that CF isn't multi-threaded (it is, of course and has been
for years) or that it can't handle any significant load (it's been able
to since 4) or that it lacks some other basic neccesity that it's
featured for years (like structured exception handling, recursion,
custom functions, etc).
I'm not sure why this is, but it definately is a problem.
Jim Davis
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