Hey Frank, at least with respect to the aspect of your jump including going "through" CF8, this blog entry from Josh points to several resource for those moving to it:
http://blog.joshuaadams.com/index.cfm/2008/9/4/Upgrading-from-ColdFusion-MX-to-ColdFus ion-8 Granted, I know you want info on 9. I'm not aware of any that have been done, though perhaps there have been. One place to look, at least to get more info on what's changed, is a list of CF9 tutorial resources gathered up (from many people) by blogger Akbarsait: http://www.akbarsait.com/cf9tutorials.cfm Going back to the move to CF8, one of the resources Josh points to is a blog entry of mine which may also interest you: http://www.carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/2009/8/10/cf8_migration_resources I'll say as well that certainly your move from 5 to 7 was huge, on two counts: CF6 had been a major rewrite of CF onto Java, and 7 added quite a lot. The move from 7 to 9 should be less challenging. It seems that there's been even more focus in recent releases to try to do no harm to existing apps, but of course there's always something that can have changed that might affect one user more than most, so testing is always vital. Finally, as Josh points out in his entry, don't forget the available Code Compatibility Checker that's built into the CF Administrator and has been for years. Of course, it's upgraded each release. It's not perfect, but it's a start. Hope that helps. /charlie > -----Original Message----- > From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Frank Moorman > Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 2:53 AM > To: discussion@acfug.org > Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] Upgrading CF7 to CF9 > > All, > > I am planning on upgrading from CF 7 to CF9. > > The last time I did a major upgrade was when I moved from CF5 to CF7. At > that time, Macromedia provided documentation on exactly what to look for > in your code before the upgrade. (mostly tag/attribute changes and > deprecations.) I did find the following web page: > > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cb > ec17576-7fef.html > > However this page seems sparse in comparison to the documentation that I > remember during my last upgrade. > > Has there not been any more deprecated tags and functions since CF7? Or > does Adobe believe upgrading will be painless for all? If anyone can > point me to additional documentation I would appreciate it. > > In addition, if anyone had a major issue during an upgrade from 7 (or 8) > to 9, I would appreciate a heads up on what to watch out for. > > Thanks, > Frank > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
