> In the past, Macromedia has made a point of NOT participating
> directly in the application server business but rather to partner
> with leader's in the space. Management is aware of this issue
> and pointed out that Allaire's flagship product, ColdFusion,
> would be repositioned such that Allaire's CFML technology would
> be maintained and that applications built with CFML will
> run on top of application servers from other vendors.
This isn't that confusing.
The version 6 release of CF, which will merge CF and JRun, will really be a
CFML interface on top of the JRun engine. CFML scripts will be compiled into
Java servlet class files, similar to how JSP files are handled by servlet
engines now.
If you write servlet/JSP code now, you can move that code from one Java
application server to another pretty easily. If CFML code becomes just
another way to write servlets, then there's no reason that those servlets
couldn't be moved across application servers as well.
The end result of this, of course, would be to broaden the potential market
for CFML development quite a bit.
The general direction of web application server vendors is moving this way
already - web development languages becoming independent from OS and
application server platforms. Microsoft is even promising that .NET
applications will be available on non-Windows platforms!
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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