Thanks Mark for sharing this. My first thought is we have CF 9 enterprise now and I guess if we move to CF X, during installation, the installer will take over from JRUN and configure Tomcat on our servers. I am certain lot of folks would say lets wait on this. :-)
<Ajas Mohammed /> http://ajashadi.blogspot.com We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are. No matter what, find a way. Because thats what winners do. You can't improve what you don't measure. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Mark Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure how many here have seen this? > > > > http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2011/3/3/ColdFusion-X-Writeup > > > > Today at Scotch on the Rocks, Adam Lehman released some tidbits about the > upcoming new release of ColdFusion, ColdFusion X. I tweeted as much as > possible, but for those who don't use Twitter, and for those who want a > general one page summary they can comment on, here is what he said and my > opinion where applicable. Please note that anything announced today could > easily change between now and the real release. Also remember these notes > are based on my memory of what Adam said. Any mistakes are my fault. > > 1) Verity will be removed. > > Not much to say about this. Adam suggested anyone using Verity now should > begin looking into transitioning to Solr. Even if Verity wasn't being > removed I think most people would recommend this anyway. Verity *was* a > good product. I don't think it got the credit it deserved. But it's ancient > now and Solr is much more capable. > > 2) JRun is being removed in favor of Tomcat. > > Not much to say about this one. I've used Tomcat before and it seems ok - > but I've had issues with it and Apache. Hopefully that won't be a problem. > Adam said - multiple times - that Adobe would be supporting Tomcat so that > if you had issues with ColdFusion and Tomcat you won't be left out in the > cold. I'm guessing this will be a slightly painful transition the *first*time > and then after that - not much of a big deal. Unofficial reports are > that ColdFusion runs much faster over Tomcat so any 'free' speed boost is a > good thing. > > 3) Webservices updated to Axis 2. > > Anyone who does much with web services in ColdFusion will know that it's > use of Axis 1 leads to issues with many service providers. ColdFusion X will > upgrade Axis to 2.latest while keeping support for Axis 1 as well. It was > suggested that in ColdFusion 11 Axis 1 would go away completely. This update > will help enable Exchange 2010 support. > > 4) Scheduled tasks updated. > > Scheduled tasks will support chaining (run task B when A is done), > conditions (don't run if CPU is 80% busy), priority, and grouping (consider > A, B, and C a group and do this to them as a whole). Also - finally - you > will be able to make them application specific. > > 5) Jobs > > Basically you wrap a set of code in a cfjob tag and it runs asynchronously. > It gets added to a queue you can introspect and modify. Basically a > shorthand for cfthread but with more control over the queue stack. > > 6) Java loader/proxies. > > No more need for JavaLoader - you can now load jars/classes via a This > scope attribute in the Application scope. On the Java side, your Java code > can create an interface from a CFC. Both seem like really nice, useful > updates. > > 7) Closures. > > Ok, I'm on the fence on this one. I load closures in JavaScript. I honestly > don't know how much I'd use them in a server side language. I'm sure I'll > regret saying that though and I bet I'll wonder how I ever lived without > them. Then again, it could end up being the next cfinterface. It was hinted > that the implementation could be similar to what Mark > blogged<http://blog.mxunit.org/2010/01/what-would-your-cfml-look-like-with.html>about > a few months ago. > > 8) HTML5/jquery > > Nothing concrete was said here, but it was stressed that HTML5 and jQuery > would be supported in big ways. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston > ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en
