Billy, Wow, great advice - I'm really looking into Ralio more for the simple fact it borrows the per-site admin feature I really like in New Atlanta's BD.NET. I really appreciate the time you've taken to give an unbiased opinion of your experience.
James E. Thomas Baker Botts L.L.P Development Manager, I.T. Practice Support Work 713.229.2196 | Mobile 832.373.8117 | Fax 713.229.8130 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Billy Cravens Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 2:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [houcfug] Adobe CF10 vs. OpenBD - Opinions I run all 3 (Adobe CF, Railo, and OpenBD). OpenBD does some innovative things, adding features not found in Railo or Adobe. For example, they bake-in many of the cloud functions you might need (Amazon and some others), have a built-in HTML parser, can talk JMS and even serve as a JMS server, and more. My biggest problem, however, is that they have made a choice to not keep up with Adobe. This may be a plus: let the product evolve on its own, and meet the needs of users, and not be driven by some corporation. However, in today's open source world, your language is driven as much by those apps as by the users, as many aren't coding their entire apps from scratch, but using frameworks and apps others have written. Some key examples that OpenBD doesn't support: script-CFCs, Hibernate ORM, etc. Railo offers the per-site admin you're looking for, and is language compatible with Adobe. Moreover, they've stated that compatibility is their goal. (I went into more detail on Railo's benefits in my other email) CF10 offers some awesome new features that bring it up to par with other languages if Web 2.0 features are important to you: WebSockets, REST API server support, HTML 5 video, and more. Railo will be supporting those features, but CF 10 has been shipping for about 6 weeks now, whereas those features will be in the next version of Railo, which is still in beta (I think they'll finalize in the fall). (Granted, beta/finished isn't as significant for Open Source as it is for commercially produced software) Billy Cravens [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On Jul 9, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Joyrex wrote: I'm at a bit of a crossroads as a CF developer, and was wondering what the group thought about Adobe CF10 vs. OpenBD, aka Open BlueDragon. Background: We currently use New Atlanta's BlueDragon.NET<http://BlueDragon.NET> 7.x, and have been happy with it over Adobe CF for some years now, that is until it appears that New Atlanta has given up on developing BD any further, and now that Adobe CF has caught up (and surpassed) feature-wise with the innovations BD offered with CF9 and now CF10. Add to the mix the free, seemingly well-supported and active Open BlueDragon, which seems to be a meld of the best from Adobe's flavor of CF and the once-innovative spirit New Atlanta's BD offered. Of course, I could install both and try them out (and probably will), but I'm curious as to what fellow developers thought of each and any experiences you might want to share as caveats for either. One of the things I think I will miss the most was BD.NET<http://BD.NET>'s individual instances of BD running so each site has it's own admin console, as it seems both OpenBD and CF10 take the singular admin console approach for all sites. Any comments/suggestions/stories are appreciated! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this email and any attachments is intended only for the recipient[s] listed above and may be privileged and confidential. Any dissemination, copying, or use of or reliance upon such information by or to anyone other than the recipient[s] listed above is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately at the email address above and destroy any and all copies of this message. -- 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
