>You do realize this is possible now, right? If you install CFMX 7 >using the Multiserver installation option on, say, your laptop, you >can write your application, create an EAR/WAR which contains the >entire CF runtime, and give it to some J2EE app server admin and tell >him to deploy it. Of course, it's not free - you have to either >include your own license information (thus invalidating it on your own >machine, legally) or have that information added post-deployment.
We use the J2EE version of MX (equivalent to "Multiserver installation"?), deploying in Weblogic, and i've got to say that, in my experience, it's a little more hairy than that: 1) In Weblogic, CF has to be deployed as an exploded war / ear (as i recall, this has something to do with needing read / write access to the license.properties file). This means that the ear or war has to be uploaded to each machine in the cluster, exploded, deployed from the weblogic console, and then the license information needs to be updated separately in each instance using the cf admin (although i think there are "cluster friendly" serial numbers available). Contrast this with a "normal" java web app, where you upload the war/jar/rar/ear using a web form on the weblogic console and it is automatically deployed on all of the machines in the cluster. 2) You have to deploy a full cf instance every time. Even if your app is a simple five pager that doesn't need scheduled tasks,web services, or whatever - you still need to deploy hundreds of megabytes of code, which does affect memory usage and startup time for you app server. These are just our experiences in our environment, not enough to draw any binding conclusions about the state of the product. But, here, small apps that would be a natural for CF's feature set keep losing out to struts based apps packaged as wars because the perception is that they are "easier to setup and manage"... :( /t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:249018 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
