Macromedia Dreamweaver MX & Studio MX 2004 Updates Now Available

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Hot off the press: the Updater for Dreamweaver MX 2004 is now available. 

With the release of the Dreamweaver Updater, all Macromedia Studio MX 2004
products have been optimized for better quality and performance.  

New Studio MX 2004 purchases will include all of the updated products.
Existing users can download the free individual product updaters online at: 

http://www.macromedia.com/go/studioupdates  

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Damon Cooper
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JRun 4 Updater 3 Now Available

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Next stop: JRun 4.1 and JRun 5!

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FREE CFMX 6.1 Installation Support is Available!

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Just a reminder:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/programs/self/coldfusion/installation.html

We anxiously await your installation support requests!  

Thanks!

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Java Turkish Support: "Provided, but not Tested"

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Just FYI for the fellow that spent 10 hours trying to install on a Turkish OS:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/locale.doc.html

Sun lists it as "Provided, but not Tested".


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Blue dragon installation issues

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>I'll make sure someone takes a look at it today. And, no, we don't need your credit 
>card number. ;-)

No credit card required from Macromedia either, for installation issues.  For anyone 
experiencing CF product installation issues, the mechanism to use for "installation 
issues" (as defined on the page link) is via email here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/isupport/

BTW, you might want to check out the ColdFusion "Red Sky" Release Preview:

a) Check out CF "Red Sky" Release preview info here:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/presentation/redsky

b) Apply for the CF "Red Sky" Beta program here:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/cfmxbeta




Subject: Blue dragon installation issues
From: "Vince Bonfanti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:41:09 -0400
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Hi Ryan,

Can you forward an email describing your problem to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and attach the 
"bluedragon.log" file? You can find the log file in the following directory within 
your webapp:

  /WEB-INF/bluedragon/work/bluedragon.log

I'll make sure someone takes a look at it today. And, no, we don't need your credit 
card number. ;-)

BTW, the reason you can't find admin.cfm is because it's delivered within an encrypted 
BlueDragon Archive (BDA) file, which is located in:

  /WEB-INF/bluedragon/admin.bda

One of the features of BlueDragon is that you can build your own BDA files and deploy 
them instead of your CFML source code.

Vince Bonfanti
New Atlanta Communications, LLC
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Installing MX for JRun with no context root

[Damon Cooper]

CFMX also comes in two flavors: Server and "for J2EE" editions.  And CFMX for J2EE is 
a Sun "J2EE Verified" certified J2EE application itself.  

I think copying *.cfm files is an acceptable and familiar task to J2EE app server 
administrators and would probably not be considered overly complex.  If customers tell 
us they want to create a zip or war file our of CFMX Runtime+their app, I think we 
could do that pretty easily.  We've heard it mostly from New Atlanta in threads like 
these.

Installing any application to the "/" context can involve special consideration for 
the administrator, and is not specific to CFMX, but dDeploying CFMX onto a full JRun 
J2EE server, including to context root "/" will get much easier shortly.

The biggest problem is some J2EE app servers already come with a pre-deployed app at 
"/" context root, etc, and in JRun's case, the "default app" needs to be moved out of 
the way.





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RE: CF-Talk: Digest every 6 hours

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Thanks for the feedback guys.  I agree this should be simple, easy and automatic for 
CF customers.

Fixed.


---
On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 13:08 US/Pacific, Dave Carabetta wrote:

> I have installed CFMX for J2EE for JRun many times using "cfusion" as 
> my
> context root. However, now I need to do some installations with no 
> context
> root ("/") and I can't get MX to successfully start up for the life of

> me.
>
> I have successfully run the installer using the EAR option, and 
> exploded the
> EAR to view the application.xml file to confirm that the context-root 
> node
> said "/". I then went and deleted the default-ear directory from under

> my
> server instance to eliminate the potential context root clash betwen 
> the
> default application and CFMX. This leaves only the SERVER-INF 
> directory. I
> then copy the cfusion.war file into my server root directory (i.e.,
> /opt/jrun4/servers/mysite) and explode the archive. That process seems

> to go
> without a problem (although I have a stange feeling that might be 
> where my
> problem is). I also see that I don't need to explode the rds.war file
> because I'm not using a context root.
>
> I then follow the Updater 3 Release Notes to get MX in synch with JRun

> and
> then try and start the server. But I constantly get the following 
> startup
> errors:
>
> 06/13 16:01:26 info JRun Naming Service listening on *:2911
> 06/13 16:01:27 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this
> server (see jrun-resources.xml)
> 06/13 16:01:27 info JRun Web Server listening on *:8500
> 06/13 16:01:27 warning Deployer Service failed to deploy
> file:/opt/jrun4/servers/mysite/META-INF/
> * Unrecognized deployment: 
> file:/opt/jrun4/servers/reisse/META-INF/
> 06/13 16:01:27 warning Deployer Service failed to deploy
> file:/opt/jrun4/servers/mysite/WEB-INF/
> * Unrecognized deployment: 
> file:/opt/jrun4/servers/reisse/WEB-INF/
> 06/13 16:01:27 warning Deployer Service failed to deploy
> file:/opt/jrun4/servers/mysite/CFIDE/
> * Unrecognized deployment: 
> file:/opt/jrun4/servers/reisse/CFIDE/
> 06/13 16:01:27 info Deploying enterprise application "JRun 4.0 
> Internal J2EE
> Components" from: file:/opt/jrun4/lib/jrun-comp.ear
> 06/13 16:01:27 info Deploying EJB "JRunSQLInvoker" from:
> file:/opt/jrun4/lib/jrun-comp.ear
> 06/13 16:01:28 info Deploying enterprise application "Flash Remoting 
> EAR"
> from: file:/opt/jrun4/lib/flashgateway.ear
> 06/13 16:01:28 info Deploying web application "Flash Remoting" from:
> file:/opt/jrun4/lib/flashgateway.ear
> 06/13 16:01:28 user JSPServlet: init
> 06/13 16:01:28 user FlashGatewayServlet: init
> Server mysite ready (startup time: 6 seconds)
>
> What am I missing? Does anybody have a good instruction set to get MX
> (preferably on JRun) running with no context root? As I said, I've
> successfully installed using "cfusion" as a context root dozens of 
> times,
> but "/" is stumping me.
>
> As a test, I created a sub-directory called cfusion and exploded the 
> archive
> there and everything worked fine. But the whole point is to not have 
> to type
> /cfusion in my URLs.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave.


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Installing MX for JRun with no context root

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Coudn't agree more, at least on JRun.  It's our stuff and should be easy. 

Fixed.


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CF Compatibility

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My compatibility concerns could be interpreted as bias, but we do possess a 
signficiant arsenal of quality assurance test suites here that we've made a massive 
investment in over the years, and I know how important small incompatabilities can be 
to customers.  

There's a lot that goes into being ColdFusion/CFML "compatible", and without putting 
that in that effort, and I think using the phrases "compatible" or "signficantly 
compatible" can be very misleading for customers who trust these statements.



Date: 06/14/2003 02:12 PM
Author: John Quarto-vonTivadar
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> but please note that "substantially compatible" is different than being 
"compatible". 
> 

Damon, 

I think your compatibility point is well taken. But it would carry much more 
weight when delivered by people outside of either camp. For example what a 
Mike Dinowitz or Hal Helms or Howie Hamlin have to say about the 
compatibility being substantially different or substantially the same, 
simply because they aren't identified as being in one camp or another. 

*Of course*, a MACR person is going to say that that difference makes a 
difference. And of course, a NA person is going to say that the few 
differences are differences that make no difference.  
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CFMX,BD... the question on many minds...

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What's the issue you're seeing with CFQUERYPARAM in CFMX?

(I posted this in the other thread as well, but it's appopriate here in answer to your 
comment):

---
The reason for my post was to point of the difference between being "substantially 
compatible" with ColdFusion CFML, and being "compatible" with ColdFusion CFML for 
CF4.5 and CF5 customers.  

Increasingly, thread after thread of legitimate user and community discussion here and 
elsewhere have been taken over by New Atlanta Communications, LLC employees and 
mutated into marketing campaign threads, and include the phrase "compatible" or 
"substantially compatible".  

While compatibility (and quality in general) is by no means the only or central issue 
customers are need to be concerned with, unsuspecting users naively are likely to miss 
this subtle difference, and could be mislead or even hurt in a variety of ways.  

To remain silent and allow this to go unchallenged could be bad. 

Damon

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CF Compatability

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The reason for my post was to point of the difference between being "substantially 
compatible" with ColdFusion CFML, and being "compatible" with ColdFusion CFML for 
CF4.5 and CF5 customers.  

Increasingly, thread after thread of legitimate user and community discussion here and 
elsewhere have been taken over by New Atlanta Communications, LLC employees and 
mutated into marketing campaign threads, and include the phrase "compatible" or 
"substantially compatible".  

While compatibility (and quality in general) is by no means the only or central issue 
customers are need to be concerned with, unsuspecting users naively are likely to miss 
this subtle difference, and could be mislead or even hurt in a variety of ways.  

To remain silent and allow this to go unchallenged could be bad. 

Damon
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CF Compatability

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Ok, it's Saturday morning, and I'm officially "off the clock", so this is not a sales 
pitch either, but... :)

I love Charlie to death, and he's done some awesome stuff for this community, 
virtually dedicating his life to CF, and I have a lot of respect for the things that 
Vince & Co have done as well, but please note that "substantially compatible" is 
different than being "compatible".  

I can tell you first hand it took the real and substantial effort of many, many people 
to obtain the level of CF5 CFML compatibility we've achieved in CFMX Updater 3, and a 
sizable (and growing) suite of over 30,000 CFML regression tests we constructed, in 
addition to the plethora of hundreds of real-customer application regression tests, 
compiler "cess pool" tests, manual regression tests, load tests, MTBF & endurance 
tests, failover & multi-instance tests, performance and scalability tests, 
multi-platform tests, JDK tests, "eat-our-own-dogfood" tests, and massive Beta 
programs involving thousands of CF users over many months, to help ensure we created, 
maintained, and could continue to improve upon, the highest possible level of CF5 
compatibility possible. And it's all about to take a another giant leap forward.  

There are language nuances, implied behaviors and hundreds of language and server 
subtleties that make only ColdFusion MX "compatible" with CF5.  

So this is not a sales pith either, but I'd say stick with Macromedia 
ColdFusion...we've got good things in store, and we gotcha covered.  We're 
laser-focused on delivering a rock-solid, extremely-compatible, unbelievably 
feature-rich, and screamin-fast server, designed to make your life easier.

(but no sales pitch)  :)



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RED SKY BETA (CORRECT URL)

[Damon Cooper]

Sorry about thattooo many MMM's.


Click here:

http://www.macromedia.com/go/cfmxbeta 




-Original Message-
From: Damon Cooper 
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:55 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RED SKY BETA 


We need your help to really put the CF "RED SKY" release through its paces and make 
this the best ColdFusion Server product ever released.

If you think you might be able to help us out, you're invited complete the simple Beta 
program application:

http://www.macromedia.com/go/cfmmxbeta 

The CF "RED SKY" preview presentation contains the only details that can be talked 
about publicly, but it's located here:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/presentation/redsky/

We've poured poured our heart & soul into RED SKY, and we want it to be "The ONE" you 
use and depend on, to do-what-you-do.  

See you in the Beta Forums!

Damon Cooper
Dir of Engineering, ColdFusion Server
Macromedia
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RED SKY BETA

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We need your help to really put the CF "RED SKY" release through its paces and make 
this the best ColdFusion Server product ever released.

If you think you might be able to help us out, you're invited complete the simple Beta 
program application:

http://www.macromedia.com/go/cfmmxbeta 

The CF "RED SKY" preview presentation contains the only details that can be talked 
about publicly, but it's located here:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/presentation/redsky/

We've poured poured our heart & soul into RED SKY, and we want it to be "The ONE" you 
use and depend on, to do-what-you-do.  

See you in the Beta Forums!

Damon Cooper
Dir of Engineering, ColdFusion Server
Macromedia
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RE: Update on the Installer "Freeze" & Failure to Auto-Start on W indows Issues...

[Damon Cooper]

One more update:

We believe we at least somewhat understand the "CFMX doesn't startup on reboot" issue 
as recreated on the machines in house here.

To summarize (and I'm sure I'm whitewashing some of this):

1) The CFMX App Server is an native Windows executable wrapper that is the main 
"ColdFusion MX Application Server" service.
2) It controls, starts, stops, and monitors the main "jrun.exe" executable that CFMX 
is runs on.
3) The wrapper executable has separate timeout values for both starting and stopping 
the main "jrun.exe" executable.  Both timeout values are currently hardwired to 20 
seconds.
4) On machines with a lot going on during startup, or complex services dependencies, 
or slow machines, the "jrun.exe" executable can exceed the 20 second timeout in 
successfully starting.  When this timeout is exceeded, the Service wrapper executable 
"gives up", returns a failure code and CFMX is not started.
5) If, when CFMX is told to shutdown (via the Services Control Panel, or via command, 
or when an Updater installer tells it to shutdown), the "jrun.exe" exceeds the Service 
wrapper's shutdown timeout (20 sec), the wrapper returns a failure code and gives up.

When we extend the startup timeout of the Service wrapper executable (we give it some 
patience), "jrun.exe" and CFMX eventually startup fine, but it may take some extra 
time.  Same for shutdown in most cases.

So...

We're testing a fix to the wrapper that a) raises the default timeout for both 
operations, and making these values configurable via a setting (registry, XML file, 
whatever). It seems to work in all cases so far, and we hope to get it to Mike's 
hoster guy to try shortly (he may already have it now).

Finally, as extra shutdown insurance, we may optionally allow the shutdown code of the 
Service wrapper to do a forced shutdown of the "jrun.exe" if the (now extended, 
configurable) timeout expires. As soon as we have a good hotfix, we'll try to make it 
generally available ASAP.



Sorry about all this, and thanks for hanging with us...

Damon




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From: Damon Cooper 
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 7:16 AM
To: 'CF-Talk '; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Update on the Installer "Freeze" & Failure to Auto-Start on Windows 
Issues...


Quick update:

Switching JVM's didn't have any affect on our test machine exhibiting the problem. We 
do get "Error Number 2" errors in the System Event Log, however, which indicate "The 
system cannot find the file specified."  This could be due to the fact that a socket 
open failed (TCP sockets are OS "files") due to the OS network layer not being ready 
for us, or we were impatient with a short timeout, and may need to sleep & retry the 
open and/or use a longer timeout.

We continue to actively work this today.  More to come...




-Original Message-
From: Damon Cooper 
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:42 AM
To: 'CF-Talk '
Subject: Update on the Installer "Freeze" & Failure to Auto-Start on Windows Issues...


I've not had the cycles to keep up with the feeding frenzy this has turned into, but I 
thought I'd update everyone on where we are regarding the 2 issues reported and 
discussed here at the one machine at Mike's hosting site:

1) ZeroG Java-based Updater installer hang.

It took us a little while to track this down (we had to find a machine with less-than 
8-bit color display capability...harder than you'd think these days).

Here's the scoop:

a) For the GUI-based installer, a minimum of 8-bit color depth (256 colors) is 
required to run InstallAnywhere-based installers. Additionally, installers require a 
minimum 640 X 480 screen resolution.  

b) The Updater installer can be invoked in "silent" mode on Windows, if you have a 
machine that doesn't meet (a) above for the GUI install, or (b) you have a need to 
apply the Updater to many machines via batch scripts, etc, etc.  Follow the 
instructions here for a "silent" install:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/releasenotes/mx/releasenotes_mx_updater03.html#silentinstall


2) CF not automatically starting reliably on Windows after system reboot:
 
We had 3 engineers working this all day Friday, and we believe we have a reproducible 
case, and have started debugging the process to see what's happening.  

One of the things we're about to try is to simply switch Java VM's to see if this is 
the result of a Java VM bug (we've had several in the 
interacting-with-Windows-as-a-Service area before, so we're not ruling that out, and 
it's a quick thing to try.  Recall that the CFMX Gold bits shipped out of the box with 
the Sun 1.3.1_03 VM.  Trying the 1.3.1_08 VM, the 1.4.1_03 VM and t

RE: Update on the Installer "Freeze" & Failure to Auto-Start on W indows Issues...

[Damon Cooper]

Quick update:

Switching JVM's didn't have any affect on our test machine exhibiting the problem. We 
do get "Error Number 2" errors in the System Event Log, however, which indicate "The 
system cannot find the file specified."  This could be due to the fact that a socket 
open failed (TCP sockets are OS "files") due to the OS network layer not being ready 
for us, or we were impatient with a short timeout, and may need to sleep & retry the 
open and/or use a longer timeout.

We continue to actively work this today.  More to come...




-Original Message-
From: Damon Cooper 
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 10:42 AM
To: 'CF-Talk '
Subject: Update on the Installer "Freeze" & Failure to Auto-Start on Windows Issues...


I've not had the cycles to keep up with the feeding frenzy this has turned into, but I 
thought I'd update everyone on where we are regarding the 2 issues reported and 
discussed here at the one machine at Mike's hosting site:

1) ZeroG Java-based Updater installer hang.

It took us a little while to track this down (we had to find a machine with less-than 
8-bit color display capability...harder than you'd think these days).

Here's the scoop:

a) For the GUI-based installer, a minimum of 8-bit color depth (256 colors) is 
required to run InstallAnywhere-based installers. Additionally, installers require a 
minimum 640 X 480 screen resolution.  

b) The Updater installer can be invoked in "silent" mode on Windows, if you have a 
machine that doesn't meet (a) above for the GUI install, or (b) you have a need to 
apply the Updater to many machines via batch scripts, etc, etc.  Follow the 
instructions here for a "silent" install:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/releasenotes/mx/releasenotes_mx_updater03.html#silentinstall


2) CF not automatically starting reliably on Windows after system reboot:
 
We had 3 engineers working this all day Friday, and we believe we have a reproducible 
case, and have started debugging the process to see what's happening.  

One of the things we're about to try is to simply switch Java VM's to see if this is 
the result of a Java VM bug (we've had several in the 
interacting-with-Windows-as-a-Service area before, so we're not ruling that out, and 
it's a quick thing to try.  Recall that the CFMX Gold bits shipped out of the box with 
the Sun 1.3.1_03 VM.  Trying the 1.3.1_08 VM, the 1.4.1_03 VM and the 1.4.2 Beta VM 
will determine whether it's something that's fixed in the VM.  If anyone on this list 
is experiencing the issue, and wants to try these VM's and report back, that would be 
a big help, and you can participate in helping to move this issue forward.

More to come, when we know more (likely Monday EOD sometime)...

Thanks for your patience.

Damon


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Update on the Installer "Freeze" & Failure to Auto-Start on Windo ws

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Sorry, to add some clarity around what I'm looking for help with in #2: 

If you have a machine that exhibits this behavior, please try changing the JRE used by 
CFMX in via the Administrator "Java and VM Settings" page to one of the following 
updated VM's form Sun:

1) Sun 1.3.1_08 Windows SDK:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/download.html

2) Sun 1.4.1_03 Windows SDK:  
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html

3) Sun 1.4.2 Beta Windows SDK
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

Then, stop/start the CFMX Server and be sure it's using the new VM (check the Settings 
Summary Admin page to see the in-use VM version info and make sure it matches the one 
you've set CFMX to use).

Then, reboot the machine, and (touching nothing), after it starts up and settles, try 
to access the CFMX server from a browser from another machine.

Please post back here if you are able to try any of these VM's and have any 
observations.  We'll be doing this in the lab tomorrow (Monday), but the more data 
points we can gather, the better.

Thanks again.

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Update on the Installer "Freeze" & Failure to Auto-Start on Windo ws Issues...

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I've not had the cycles to keep up with the feeding frenzy this has turned into, but I 
thought I'd update everyone on where we are regarding the 2 issues reported and 
discussed here at the one machine at Mike's hosting site:

1) ZeroG Java-based Updater installer hang.

It took us a little while to track this down (we had to find a machine with less-than 
8-bit color display capability...harder than you'd think these days).

Here's the scoop:

a) For the GUI-based installer, a minimum of 8-bit color depth (256 colors) is 
required to run InstallAnywhere-based installers. Additionally, installers require a 
minimum 640 X 480 screen resolution.  

b) The Updater installer can be invoked in "silent" mode on Windows, if you have a 
machine that doesn't meet (a) above for the GUI install, or (b) you have a need to 
apply the Updater to many machines via batch scripts, etc, etc.  Follow the 
instructions here for a "silent" install:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/releasenotes/mx/releasenotes_mx_updater03.html#silentinstall


2) CF not automatically starting reliably on Windows after system reboot:
 
We had 3 engineers working this all day Friday, and we believe we have a reproducible 
case, and have started debugging the process to see what's happening.  

One of the things we're about to try is to simply switch Java VM's to see if this is 
the result of a Java VM bug (we've had several in the 
interacting-with-Windows-as-a-Service area before, so we're not ruling that out, and 
it's a quick thing to try.  Recall that the CFMX Gold bits shipped out of the box with 
the Sun 1.3.1_03 VM.  Trying the 1.3.1_08 VM, the 1.4.1_03 VM and the 1.4.2 Beta VM 
will determine whether it's something that's fixed in the VM.  If anyone on this list 
is experiencing the issue, and wants to try these VM's and report back, that would be 
a big help, and you can participate in helping to move this issue forward.

More to come, when we know more (likely Monday EOD sometime)...

Thanks for your patience.

Damon


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alternatives to cfhttp

[Damon Cooper]

Or Red Sky.


Subject: alternatives to cfhttp
From: "Teng-Yan Loke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:58:23 +0800
Thread: 
http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=messages&threadid=24479&forumid=4#123242

If you're on Windows, try the ServerXMLHTTP object.

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk30/ht
m/xmobjxmldomserverxmlhttp.asp
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Before you rush to tell me what to do ... (was: Quick note from the CF Team....) --- UPDATE ON MIKE'S ISSUE...

[Damon Cooper]

FYI: (if anyone's keeping track), it looks a lot like the issue Mike's ISP guy was 
having was due to running the Updater installer under 16 colors (256 or higher 
required, or you can use the "silent installer" with pre-loaded options).

The Updater installer would spin CPU at 100% or just exit, I believe.  

256 colors or higher is a known ZeroG "InstallAnywhere" requirement...there's an open 
case at ZeroG.  We'll make sure we check for this if possible, or at least be crystal 
clear in system requirements for Windows going forward if this turns out to be the 
problem, since it runs on Java and uses Swing.

More to come


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"Red Sky" Preview, Known Issues Update, and Installation Support

[Damon Cooper]

Hey folks, some info you might find handy:

1. ColdFusion "Red Sky" Release Preview:

a) Check out CF "Red Sky" Release preview info here:
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/presentation/redsky
(Beta Participants, please note you are still under NDA...thanks!)

b) Apply for the CF "Red Sky" Beta program here:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/cfmxbeta


(BTW, one of the production http://www.macromedia.com servers is running on the Red 
Sky Beta release.)


2. CF "Known Issues" List:

We're in the process of updating the CF "Known Issues" list (should be updated 
in the next day or so):

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/issues.html

So watch this page.  If you're experiencing an issue listed here, we're on it. 
 If it's not listed here, please let us know about it by either: 

a) Joining the "Red Sky" Beta program and entering a Beta bug report, 
or 
b) Entering it here: 
http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/?6213=3


3. CF Installation Support:

For anyone experiencing product installation issues, a reminder that the 
mechanism to use for CFMX "installation issues" (as defined on the page link) is via 
email here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/isupport/






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Quick note from the CF Team....

[Damon Cooper]

FYI, we're working with Mike to work through his install issues, but for reference, 
for anyone else out there experiencing installation issues with CFMX:

The general mechanism to use for CFMX installation problems (as defined on the page 
link below) is via email here:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/isupport/

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Quick note from the CF Team....

[Damon Cooper]

We're working very hard to get the installation experience as bulletproof as we can 
make it.  We've rewritten the installer, and added several layers of bulletproofing 
ate every step along the way to try to make the process as easy as possible.  

One of the main areas people ran into trouble with CFMX installation was getting the 
web server connectors installed.  Unfortunately, the JRun gear (wsconfig) the CFMX 
installer relied on to get this done needed some bulletproofing as well, and so we've 
gone in and done significant work on that gear and the connectors themselves as well.  

Significant stability and configuration bulletproofing went into the connectors and 
config utility in CFMX Updater 3 and JRun4 Updater 2.  In many cases, if customers 
installed CFMX (Gold), then immediately updated to Updater 3, ran the connector .bat 
scripts in the bin directory, they'd be all set.  

Again, we're definitely aware of the delta between the CF5 and CFMX installation 
experiences and we're working on it...



---
Subject: Quick note from the CF Team
From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 20:40:39 -0500
Thread: 
http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=messages&threadid=24423&forumid=4#122781

Thank you for that, Damon.

Hopefully what ever the MM team does, a part of the energy is spent on the 
InstallShield (or whichever installer you choose) scripting, which will help the user 
install the server product on a multi-homed server, and not the very insecure default 
web site (wwwroot)  Should virtual directories need creating and/or choices need to be 
made, this should all be done via the installer scripts.  I also hope and pray that 
the improvements when released, will not require customers to re-purchase the product 
just to get it to install.

For those who install the product on a single homed server, rarely are install 
problems encountered.

Also kudos to Sean and others of the MM marketing team, even though some of them 
prefer to use Macs (grin) for their attempts to help, and for communicating the users' 
problems up the line.

A lesser concern is the uninstaller routine, it should be scripted to do a complete 
and clean removal of the product on the first run of the installer.

For Michael, the installation of UD3 is not specific to SQL2000 database, it crashes 
the entire server, as in lockup.  The log files usually always indicate errors with 
JRUN.  If anyone has comments or additions to my procedures, please let me know and I 
will add them to the page.

On the other hand, the installation on Red Hat Linux 9.0 and Apache 2.xx  was
straight forward and went right the first try.   My Linux sysadmin had nothing
but good to say about it.

I look forward to becoming (again) an enthusiastic evangelist for ColdFusion.
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_Big_troubles_with_memory_usage/linux

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We had a crash scenario in our regressions on Linux SMP, (single user running through 
tens of thousands of templates), a case where our MTBF tests crashed the VM on Windows 
and Linux (under load), a case where we could manually refresh a certain CFM page 3 
times to trigger the memory "spiral-and-crash", and a customer in production who tried 
all the VM's and came to the same conclusion we had: 131_0x is stable.

We sent in stack traces and dumps to the vendors, and the issue has been addressed in 
1.4.2 final when it's available.


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Subject: _Big_troubles_with_memory_usage/linux
From: "Dave Carabetta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 19:49:20 -0400
Thread: 
http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=messages&threadid=24417&forumid=4#122771

> We have found in testing here that the 1.4.1_02, 1.4.1_03 and 1.4.2 
> Beta
JVM's all have an issue that can cause memory usage to spiral out of control and crash 
the VM under certain circumstances.
>

Can you bullet-point the "certain cirumstances"? Not asking for a comprehensive list, 
as I know envrionments and applications will vary, but are these circumstances due to 
load, usage of certain tags, etc.?

Any enlightenment is appreciated.

Regards,
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RE: _Big_troubles_with_memory_usage/linux

[Damon Cooper]

We have found in testing here that the 1.4.1_02, 1.4.1_03 and 1.4.2 Beta JVM's all 
have an issue that can cause memory usage to spiral out of control and crash the VM 
under certain circumstances.

The 1.3.1_03 and 1.3.1_08-based JVM's have proven fairly stable.

Until 1.4.2 is available, I'd strongly suggest going back to 1.3.1_X, all platforms.
 
My 2c.


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Subject: _Big_troubles_with_memory_usage/linux
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Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2003 18:03:04 +0200
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something else I've found now in the apache error.log:
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Quick note from the CF Team....

[Damon Cooper]

Folks,

Let me just jump in here and say that, on behalf of the ColdFusion team, we care very 
much about configuration and other issues that customers have told us about, and we've 
been working very, very hard over the last several months to systematically gather, 
categorize, prioritize, hunt down and address them, one-by-one.

We've scoured the forums, CF-Talk, our own Bug Tracker, Tech Support logs and other 
sources going back to the CF 3.0 days and beyond to make sure we focused energy on the 
issues customers have told us matter most to them, and with the full-team focus we've 
been able to dedicate to this effort, I'm convinced we are about to enter a very 
exciting period for Internet application developers, and a virtual re-birth of the 
ColdFusion product.

These next few months are going to be an exciting time to be a ColdFusion customer.  
Not since ColdFusion 5 have I witnessed such total determination and single-minded, 
team-wide laser-focus on raising the ColdFusion customer satisfaction bar.  With the 
full support of executive management and the blessing of our customer advisory board, 
we've focused significant energy in improving the things you told us to focus on.  

Let me also add that I'm very proud to be working for one of the most dedicated, 
customer- and quality-focused software development teams on the planet, bar none.  I 
sincerely hope that as soon as we can get the fruits of this work out to you, you'll 
agree that we really are listening to you, and we're not going to stop.  Without you, 
we might as well pack it up and go home.  We know you depend on us to deliver high 
quality products for delivering powerful Internet apps of all shapes and sizes, faster 
and easier than any competing technology, so please keep the feedback coming.  This is 
your product.


Damon Cooper 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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617-219-2025

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How to Dramatically Improve FuseBox4 Performance Under Load...

[Damon Cooper]

Hey guys...hopefully this finds it way to the right folks...I know folks on this list 
use FuseBox.

The CF FuseBox 4 code should be able to see a dramatic improvement in performance in 
CFMX by looking for opportunities to reducing or removing CFLOCK's where they are no 
longer required in CFMX.  

We're looking into FuseBox 3 and the FuseBox MS CFC stuff next.

Thanks
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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has been released

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FYI, we're testing the Windows 2003 final bits with CFMX + Updater 3 in the next day 
or so.  There's likely a manual configuration of the web server connector required for 
IIS6, but we'll post something as soon as we have results and instructions on getting 
it going.



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Subject: SOT: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has been released


> See:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/default.mspx
> 
> NB: no update on whether MM supports W2003 yet.
> 
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CFMX Updater 3 Available

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Hey Don, 

This looks like issue #48769, described as, "Queries that use a datasource that 
attempts to connect to a non-responsive db server take an extraordinarily long time to 
timeout."

While this is not explicitly listed as fixed in Updater 3, a similar issue was 
addressed in a previous drop of the DataDirect JDBC drivers (included in this release 
and Updater 2), namely: "Driver threads used with queryTimeout (CFQUERY using Timeout 
parameter) were not explicitly terminated [15002321]"

This new drop of DataDirect JDBC drivers included in Updater 3 has some important 
stuff fixed that would have affected you and other CF customers, so I'd strongly urge 
you to give Updater 3 a try in general.

Of course, we'll try to re-verify #48769 against Updater 3 here as well and post back 
here shortly...


---
Subject: CFMX Updater 3 Available
From: Chunshen (Don) Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:51:55 -0400

Damon,

Someone here, I don't remember whom, acknowledged here a while back, CFMX couldn't 
timeout unavailable datasource, a bug.  I've looked at Updater 3's release note, I 
didn't find anything referencing this topic, is this bug fixed in the Updater 3?   
It's absolutely critical to our applications.  Thanks.

Don Li
http://www.hegelsoftware.com/regURL.htm
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CFMX Updater 3 Available

[Damon Cooper]

FYI, we're working with Dave to figure out what's up with this failure.

Thanks


Subject: CFMX Updater 3 Available
From: "Dave Carabetta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:01:36 -0500

Make that 99 fixes. The WDDX bug that is claimed to have been fixed (Bug 
49064), at least using CFMX for JRun, is not (The description is: "The 
cfwddx tag did not properly handle packets marked as version 0.9"). This is 
a major point-of-failure for us, as we still receive the following error 
when trying to deserialize a WDDX packet marked as version 0.9:

WDDX packet parse error at line 1, column -1. Relative URI "wddx_0090.dtd";
can not be resolved without a base URI..

Any chance there might be a hotfix for this?

Thanks,
Dave.
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CFMX Updater 3 Available

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You should be able to easily back out Updater 3 and restore whatever you had before 
(CFMX Gold, U1, U2, etc) by following the instructions here: 

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/releasenotes/mx/releasenotes_mx_updater03.html#uninstalling



-Original Message-
Subject: CFMX Updater 3 Available
From: "Lee Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:24:09 -0800

Damon,

What's the Plan-B procedure should our installations decide to die on us and
our customers after installing 3?  Just need to know before we move forward.

Thanks...

 
Lee Fuller
Chief Technical Officer
PrimeDNA / AAA Web Hosting Corp.

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CFMX Updater 3 Available

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Just a reminder that ColdFusion MX "Updater 3" is now available for free download from 
the MM website.

In my opinion, this is very close to a full "dot-release" of CFMX, and includes all 
cumulative major fixes in all product areas, and adds over 100 fixes, mostly focused 
around server reliability and stability.

If you've shied away from CFMX until now because of reported stability problems, this 
is your release.  We're committed to supporting ColdFusion and you, the ColdFusion 
customer, and we're working hard to ensure you get the best ColdFusion products we can 
produce.  

Sincerely, 

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RE: Updater 2 and Oracle = 30 FIXES and 20% FASTER!

[Damon Cooper]

BTW, we should have a fix from DataDirect for this issue (15004052) in the next couple 
days...as soon as we get it, I'll have it posted in a TechNote and I'll post here.

Again, we pointed this out at the very top of the Release Notes for Updater 2, and the 
specific issue is if you are using Oracle Reference Cursors where you also have 
multiple procedures inside the reference cursor package (ref cursor packages with only 
one procedure are fine, so a possible workaround, if you're doing development, is to 
break each procedure into it's own package for now.

Updater 2 and Oracle = 30 FIXES and 20% FASTER!

[Damon Cooper]

The only issue we know about is if you are (and this is VERY specific): 

- using Oracle Reference Cursors
- those Reference Cursor packages have multiple procedures

Otherwise, there are something like 30 important Oracle fixes, plus very nice 
**15-20%** performance boost you'll pick up in the Updater 2 package for Oracle apps.

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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:30:40 -0600
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Updater 2 and Oracle ?
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I saw a quick mention in a post about known issues with updater 2 and 
Oracle.  I can't seem to find any information on this.  Does anyone have 
details?  Or, does anyone know if updater 1 is still available?  I need to 
get the dateDiff fix, but I can't have it cause problems with Oracle.

Thanks,
Erica

RE: DB Driver Inf / DB2 on AS/400 / Joe / PDF Ref Doc / etc etc

[Damon Cooper]

 We already have this file dated 12/11/2002. 

This one is very different, and should only be used for debugging (you need to restore 
the original when you're done debugging or you will have other problems).

RE: DB Driver Inf / DB2 on AS/400 / Joe / PDF Ref Doc / etc etc

[Damon Cooper]

Hey Joehope you don't mind me CC'ing CF-Talk, so everyone can use this info if 
necessary...

First, there's a bug in JRun4 (and therefore CFMX Server) - #48118,  that can obscure 
the actual JDBC exception that you're encountering, giving the generic one below. So 
let's first see what the actual error is you're encountering

1) Shut down CFMX.
2) Grab this file:  ftp://ftp.allaire.com/outgoing/damonc/jrpatch.jar 
3) Move aside (and SAVE!) your existing {cf_root}/lib/jrpatch.jar (if you have one), 
and put this "jrpatch.jar" down as {cf_root}/lib/jrpatch.jar.
4) Start CFMX
5) Try to connect again and send the error you're getting

Next, I don't see any reference to "libraries" in the DataDirect documentation 
anywhere, so perhaps the concept is only relevant for the IBM drivers?  (BTW, can you 
get connected with those?)

The "Native" DB connections we have are essentially just direct convenience mappings 
for you...they're not treated "specially" in any way, except for setup, connection, 
and some easier-to-use panels for customers.

Connection pooling is achieved via our JDBCPool class.  The pooling behavior is 
defined by the DSN settings you've set up in the Admin...we'll create a new connection 
as necessary, and if you've not disallowed connection pooling, we'll re-use an 
existing connection if the connection info is the same, and there's one available in 
the pool.



-Original Message-
From: Joe Eugene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 4:03 PM
To: Damon Cooper
Subject: RE: DB Driver Inf / DB2 on AS/400 / Joe / PDF Ref Doc / etc etc


Hi Damon..

Connection failed with this error
Connection verification failed for data source: SYSTEMB_DUDB
[]java.sql.SQLException: SQLException occurred in JDBCPool while attempting to 
connect, please check your username, password, URL, and other connectivity info. The 
root cause was that: java.sql.SQLException: SQLException occurred in JDBCPool while 
attempting to connect, please check your username, password, URL, and other 
connectivity info.

Is there anyway to know whether it created the package? Libraries are data space 
objects in DB400.. This is what my native(JTOpen) connection string looks like.. 
jdbc:as400://200.0.0.0/DBDATA;libraries=JDB,JEB
JDB and JEB are libraries.

Does CFMX treat "Native" DB connection different from default.. DB connections? How is 
connection pooling achieved? One Connection, mutiple statemens?

Thanks
Joe

DB Driver Inf / DB2 on AS/400 / Joe / PDF Ref Doc / etc etc

[Damon Cooper]

Hey guys...

Here's some info that may help 

1) Connecting using CFMX DB2 drivers on AS/400, mainframes, etc, etc: give this sample 
a try:

  1) The connect string is required to connect.

  a) First pass connection string in CFAdmin dsn
  
  
locationName=IDPODB2WDDF;collectionID=default;packagename=JDBCPKG;CreateDefaultPackage=TRUE;

  b) Second pass connection string in CFAdmin dsn (sans createdefaultpackage):
  
  locationName=IDPODB2WDDF;collectionID=default;packagename=JDBCPKG;

2) The JDBC dirvers in CFMX Updater Release 2 are based on the DataDirect Technologies 
3.1.0007 driver set.  I don't believe this high patch level is yet publicly available 
from DataDirect.  We worked with them to ensure some patches we cared about that 
affected you got fixed before we were willing to include them in Updater 2. Updater 1 
and previous shipped 3.0.0005 or thereabouts, plus a few extra patches from DataDirect.

3) Most notable about this driver set are 

a) The dozens of bug fixes

b) Significant performance improvments in the driver suite (we found ~10% 
performance improvement in the SQL Server driver, ~20+% performance improvement in the 
Oracle driver, and we understand there are big gains for DB2 customers as well), and 

c) Solid STABILITY fixes (most notably, "THREAD WHACKER" timeout watcher 
threads were not being properly killed themselevs previously in some cases, which 
could very well account for some "thread runaway" conditions we'd heard about).

3) Doc: the JDBC Reference for each DD driver we provide is here:  

ftp://ftp.allaire.com/outgoing/damonc/jdbcref.zip

4) The MySQL driver we ship was created by MM himself...you should be able use the 
latest MySQL JDBC driver via the "Other" option in the Admin, since it's essentially 
from the same guy.

Hope that helps (more than a kick in the head with a steel-toed boot, anyway)

Damon


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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:49:19 -0800
From: "Joe Eugene"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Java in CF (CFMX) - MM Drivers
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

MM-Product Team...
When Vernon Viehe(MM Community manager) exited.. there were promises from MM..that MM 
would provide better support through other MM Folks... *Is this a JOKE?* 
Vernon did a much better job..than whoever is in that place now.

This Thread Question was directed to MM..since there is no DOCUMENTATION on details of 
drivers and such.. NEVER Got an Answer.!

CFMX Updater 2 Release Notes...
DB2-Specific Issues
An exception could be generated when connecting to DB2 AS/400 v4R5. 15002962(ID).

***STILL DOING THE SAME THING with V4R5 and V5R1***

Is MM(Product-Team) going to provide the documentation details.. or do we have to wait 
another year.. for a reponse...?

BTW.. This Thread is dating back early last Month.

Joe

RE: CFMX unicode problem (SOLUTION)

[Damon Cooper]

Just to follow-up to this: 

As we state in the docs, when two CFM files contain different character encodings, but 
a BOM is missing from one or more of the .CFM files, AND no CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE is 
specified, the default OS encoding will be used.

This basically tells the CFMX compiler, which must "open" your CFM files, and which is 
written in Java, which Java encoding to use when it "opens" the CFM file to process 
and compile it, so that the appropriate Java reader is used.

You cannot, for example, set a BOM in the Application.cfm file and have it "cascade" 
down through your application CFM files.  Your CFM template editor needs to be saving 
the BOM encoding for all your templates if you're storing encoded data in your CFM 
files.

Some tips:

1) When the ColdFusion compiler begins processing a page, it searches for a byte order 
mark (BOM). Processing is as follows: 

a) If a BOM is present, ColdFusion uses the encoding that it specifies to read 
and parse the page. 
b) If no BOM is present, ColdFusion uses the VM/system's default encoding to 
read and parse the page. 

2) Macromedia recommends that you encode all international application pages as UTF-8 
with a byte-order mark (BOM), so that ColdFusion automatically detects the page as 
UTF-8 encoded; no CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE tag is needed. The BOM sets the first byte of 
a UTF file, so the program (in our case the CFMX compiler) reading the CFM file 
recognizes which encoding is in use.

3) If you think you may ever care about writing i18N-aware or L10N web apps, please 
bookmark and read this: 
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/internationalization.html 
 


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RE: CFMX JDBC Drivers

[Damon Cooper]

Just a sanity check: be sure your SQL Server is configured to accept TCP/IP socket 
connections (rather than Named Pipe connections) and is not set to Trusted 
Authentication Only.

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RE: More MM CFMX "How-To" Articles....

[Damon Cooper]

One more time (wow was that a mess!)
===
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/ 

Writing Secure Dreamweaver MX Applications (Ray West)
Learn to safeguard your databases and to use authentication code to keep your 
applications safe from would-be hackers.
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/dreamweaver/extreme/

Building a Macromedia Flash Interface for ColdFusion Data Management (Kevin Towes)
Create a rich interface for a ColdFusion component (CFC) that lists, updates, adds, 
and deletes database information.
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/extreme/

Internationalization Features in ColdFusion MX (Christina Lamkin)
Find out how to dynamically present locale-specific information for your users.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/internationalization/locales_and_cf_code/

Performing Silent Installs of ColdFusion MX on UNIX (Kristi Jabbour)
Find out how to save time with multiple installations with silent installs. 
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/installation/installing_cfmx_on_unix/

Working with Special Characters in ColdFusion MX (Cheryl Smith)
Learn to use pound signs and quotation marks correctly in ColdFusion MX.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/getting_started/using_poundsigns_quotat/

Macromedia ColdFusion Hosting Partners (Macromedia)
Need a server for your ColdFusion application? Contact one of these hosting partners.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/resources/get_started/hosting/

  
For Reference:

Main Designer & Developer Center page:  
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/

Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX Application Development Center  
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flashcom/ 

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Application Development Center
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/dreamweaver/

Macromedia Flash MX Application Development Center
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/

Macromedia ColdFusion MX Application Development Center
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/

Mobile Development Center
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mobile/


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More MM CFMX "How-To" Articles....

[Damon Cooper]

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Writing Secure Dreamweaver MX Applications

Ray West

Learn to safeguard your databases and to use authentication code to keep your 
applications safe from would-be hackers.

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/dreamweaver/extreme/ 
 

 

Building a Macromedia Flash Interface for ColdFusion Data Management
Kevin Towes

Create a rich interface for a ColdFusion component (CFC) that lists, updates, adds, 
and deletes database information.

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/extreme/ 
 

 

Internationalization Features in ColdFusion MX

Christina Lamkin

Find out how to dynamically present locale-specific information for your users.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/internationalization/locales_and_cf_code/ 

 

 

Performing Silent Installs of ColdFusion MX on UNIX

Kristi Jabbour

Find out how to save time with multiple installations with silent installs. 

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/installation/installing_cfmx_on_unix/ 
 

 

Working with Special Characters in ColdFusion MX
Cheryl Smith

Learn to use pound signs and quotation marks correctly in ColdFusion MX.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/getting_started/using_poundsigns_quotat/ 

 

 

Macromedia ColdFusion Hosting Partners

Macromedia

Need a server for your ColdFusion application? Contact one of these hosting partners.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/resources/get_started/hosting/ 
 

 

  

For Reference:

 

Main Designer & Developer Center page:

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/  

Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX Application Development Center

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flashcom/ 
  

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Application Development Center

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/dreamweaver/ 
 

Macromedia Flash MX Application Development Center

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/ 
 

Macromedia ColdFusion MX Application Development Center

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/ 
 

Mobile Development Center

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mobile/  

 


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Internationalizing CFMX Applications Article

[Damon Cooper]

(aka "The i18N Bible") is now available here:  

http://www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion/internationalization/internationalization_cfmx/

This doc should help clarify the "What's What" of CFMX i18N support.

BTW, special thanks to all of you CFMX i18N Beta testers (and Paul Hastings in 
particular) for the input, testing, conference calls, recommendations late nights and 
feedback to help make CFMX better for i18N customers everywhere.

(Paul, we now have more CF engineers versed in Thai than we ever thought possible :) 



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CFMX and LSParseDateTime Behavior

[Damon Cooper]

-Original Message-
From: Mike Andler 
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 10:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CF-Talk-list V1 #98


George,

There are a few things going on here.  Let me try to address them one at a time and as 
clearly as possible.  First of all, LSParseDateTime and ParseDateTime can not parse 
all of the same String date formats in CFMX.  A decision was made early in the project 
to make our locale specific date parsing 100% Java code, as opposed to creating custom 
formats to match CF5. This behavior is clearly documented in the release notes and 
CFMX product documentation.

As a result of this decision, if you are using LSParseDateTime with the default 
English locale, it won't necessarily parse all the same formats that ParseDateTime 
will accept.  Acceptable Java formats are much more limited than what ParseDateTime 
can deal with.  The following url shows what seems to be a fairly accurate 
representation of Javas accepted locale specific formats.

http://www.inter-locale.com/demos/locales.jsp

Keep in mind though that there are also some discrepencies from one JRE to
another.   Formats that Suns JRE accepts may differ slighly from that which
is accepted by IBM and vice versa.

The next issue that your code below is running into is that ParseDateTime in CFMX 
apparently does not support using dots ( . ) for time delimters.  This is likely an 
oversight/bug and is the cause of this code not being
parseable:

 #parsedatetime(1/7/2002 11.00 pm)#

As for whether there is a custom tag to workaround the locale specific parsing, i am 
not aware of such a tag though something could exist. Accepting this incompatibility 
was a difficult decision for us to make but we feel that the end result is more pure 
java code and is more predictable and faster than what would have been the case had we 
tried to duplicate all the accepted formats in CF5's LsParseDateTime.

Hope this is helpful.

.mike.




> > Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:40:04 +1000
> > From: "George Karabelas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: CFMX and crippled ParseDateTime
> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > hi everyone,
> >
> > Just installed CFMX and while almost everything seems to be working 
> > ok I've come across a major problem when using lsParseDateTime.. it 
> > can no longer
> > parse dates and times outside of a certain java format.
> >
> > eg. I was once able able to pass these times and they'd be converted
> to
> > datetime format.
> >
> > CF5.0 and previous:
> >
> > 1/7/2002 11:59 pm = {ts '2002-07-01 23:59:00'}
> > 1/7/2002 11:59:00 pm = {ts '2002-07-01 23:59:00'}
> > 1/7/2002 11:59pm = {ts '2002-07-01 23:59:00'}
> > 1/7/2002 11 pm = {ts '2002-07-01 23:00:00'}
> > 1/7/2002 11pm = {ts '2002-07-01 23:00:00'}
> > 1/7/2002 11.00 pm = {ts '2002-07-01 23:00:00'}
> >
> > With CFMX I get this:
> >
> > 1/7/2002 11:59 pm {ts '2002-07-01 23:59:00'}
> > 1/7/2002 11:59:00 pm - COULD NOT PARSE
> > 1/7/2002 11:59pm - COULD NOT PARSE
> > 1/7/2002 11 pm - COULD NOT PARSE
> > 1/7/2002 11pm - COULD NOT PARSE
> > 1/7/2002 11.00 pm - COULD NOT PARSE
> >
> > Taking a look at the CF5.0 documentation and using the example
> supplied
> > for
> > parsedatetime I got these results with CF5:
> >
> > 8:30:00 = {ts '1899-12-30 08:30:00'}
> > 20:30:00 = {ts '1899-12-30 20:30:00'}
> > January 25, 1999 8:30:00 = {ts '1999-01-25 08:30:00'} 8:30:00 Jan. 
> > 25, 1999 = {ts '1999-01-25 08:30:00'} 1/25/1999 8:30:00 = {ts 
> > '1999-01-25 08:30:00'}
> >
> > But with MX:
> >
> > 8:30:00 = {ts '1899-12-30 08:30:00'}
> > 20:30:00 = {ts '1899-12-30 20:30:00'}
> > January 25, 1999 8:30:00 = COULD NOT PARSE
> > 8:30:00 Jan. 25, 1999 = COULD NOT PARSE
> > 1/25/1999 8:30:00 = COULD NOT PARSE
> >
> > Rather than reinvent the wheel (and rewrite hundreds of lines of 
> > code then retest our currently functioning systems), I'd like a 
> > function that would
> > work just like lsParseDateTime v5.0. Is there a custom tag or function
> > available that will do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > George
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: "Damon Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Mike Andler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 7:52 AM
> > Subject: FW: CF-Talk-list V1 #98
> >
> >
> > > Mike, cou

CFMAIL in CFMX

[Damon Cooper]

You'll want to check out CFMAIL in CFMX.  It's utilizes the Java mail API's, has 
increased polling intervals and dedicated threads for increased performance...should 
be a different animal from the CFMAIL you knew (and grew to hate :) in the past...
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CFMX in production: vote of confidence from the CFMX team :)

[Damon Cooper]

>> Hey! Somebody else jump first!  :) 
>> I wonder if Macromedia has implemented CF MX on any production servers? 

Absolutely!  All internal CF servers we could identify were switched to CFMX around 
the Release Candidate and were upgraded to the Final released bits as soon as they 
were available.  

We're in the process of getting CFMX installed on all external-facing servers as well. 
 (As someone pointed out, the http://betaprograms.macromedia.com servers have been 
running various Beta builds of CFMX as well, and was updated to Final code as soon as 
it was available.  

We have multiple CFMX customers who have been running CFMX in production for some 
time.  (I've worked closely with most of them during the Beta program), some of them 
for many months, in fact, starting with the early Betas.  

We also have long-running Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) test servers in our labs 
that have been running for multiple weeks under significant load levels.  We plan to 
let them run for months into the future on the Final release code.  It's just another 
good data point for us.

I can assure you CFMX is faster and more scalable than CF5 under nearly all 
circumstances, and has proven extremely stable.  It's the most tested product ever 
produced in the history of Allaire or Macromedia, and we're vey proud of it.  We 
believe CFMX is battle-hardened and production ready.

(As always, of course, be sure to test your applications on it in a testing/staging 
area, both for funtionality and under load before throwing anything over the wall into 
production.)

Regards, 

Damon Cooper
Director, ColdFusion QA
Macromedia
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RE: CF5 and SMP Performance...Tuning Best Practice

[Damon Cooper]

One last note, given the Linux focus this thread has turned into:

CF5 on the same physical 2-processor machine, in a tuned Linux RedHat 7 configuration 
just slightly outperforms CF5 on the same machine (swap drives) running Windows NT 4.0 
AND Windows 2000 SP2.

CF5 also outperforms CF451 SP2 on the same SMP Linux RH7machine by nearly a factor of 
2.


-Original Message-
From: Damon Cooper 
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:47 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: CF5 and SMP Performance...Tuning Best Practice

The best practices formula is to load test to simulate your expected or observed load 
levels, in a controlled environment, while measuring avg page response time and 
throughput.  Change one "tunable" knob at a time and re-test & measure until the 
optimal value for the tunable.  Repeat until the optimal value is achieved.

In the case of CF, the Sim Requests setting knob is the one that can normally yield 
the most significant results.  Other knobs will be more or less important, depending 
on the app.

In general, a good starting point for the Sim Requests setting tuning process is 3-4 
requests/processor (was 2-3 for CF45 and below).  Optimal value for your app will 
vary, of course. 

Some CF5 vs CF45 test results can be found here:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/performance_brief/cf5_perf_brief.pdf

Regards, 

Damon 



Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:19:59 +0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hastings)
Subject: Re: CF5 and SMP Performance...
Message-ID: <000f01c1eb81$f893f840$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

...and the best practices formula for that would be? for nt4? for win2k? for linux? 
for unix?
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Re: CF5 and SMP Performance...Tuning Best Practice

[Damon Cooper]

The best practices formula is to load test to simulate your expected or observed load 
levels, in a controlled environment, while measuring avg page response time and 
throughput.  Change one "tunable" knob at a time and re-test & measure until the 
optimal value for the tunable.  Repeat until the optimal value is achieved.

In the case of CF, the Sim Requests setting knob is the one that can normally yield 
the most significant results.  Other knobs will be more or less important, depending 
on the app.

In general, a good starting point for the Sim Requests setting tuning process is 3-4 
requests/processor (was 2-3 for CF45 and below).  Optimal value for your app will 
vary, of course. 

Some CF5 vs CF45 test results can be found here:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/performance_brief/cf5_perf_brief.pdf

Regards, 

Damon 



Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:19:59 +0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hastings)
Subject: Re: CF5 and SMP Performance...
Message-ID: <000f01c1eb81$f893f840$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

...and the best practices formula for that would be? for nt4? for win2k? for linux? 
for unix?
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CF5 and SMP Performance...

[Damon Cooper]

Couldn't help but to poke in here.  I lead the performance tuning effort for CF5. 

We spent a great deal of time on 2, 4 and 8 processor machines on all platforms 
testing, analyzing and tuning the CF5 engine.  We had one beta tester on a 
16-processor Solaris machine giving us feedback as well.

CF451 SP2 and previous contained serious bottlenecks that prevented the server from 
effectively making us of all processors.

This was particularly observable on the 8-way machine, where it was extremely 
difficult to obtain CPU utilization much above 20-45%, with dismal avg page response 
times and throughput, due to threads contending for various resources and constructs 
internally.

We isolated and eliminated or tuned these in CF5, allowing CF (for the first time, 
really) to actually make use of all CPU horsepower on the machine, with enough load, 
we were able to see processor utilization with our tests in the 98-100% range, with 
avg page response times and throughput almost exactly 8X better than the single-CPU 
machine measures...what you would expect from an 8-processor SMP machine investment.

THE SHORT STORY: Assuming your app doesn't have significant shared-resource 
bottlenecks, if you add processors AND you're running CF5, by re-tuning the 
Simultaneous Requests setting in the Admin upwards, you can make very effective use of 
all processors on the machine.


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CF5 System Requirements

[Damon Cooper]

Please see the ColdFusion Serer 5 System requirements here (and on the box):

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/system_reqs/

For Windows, we list 350MB as the requirement for installation.

Thanks


  Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:33:19 -0700 
  From: Matt Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
  Subject: Re: Macromedia Cold Fusion Community Manager 
  Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

  Philip Arnold - ASP wrote: 

  > > what if i'm having a installation problem? as i'm still having problem
on 
  > > installing the CF5 
  > 
  > Just as a matter of point, the installation lies - it says it only needs
a 
  > small amount of space to install into, but it actually needs roughly 
  > 80-100Mb 

  The full install or the scratch space to unpack the installer files. I
have seen the later a lot all over the 
  industry. Only need 32k for the finished installation, but 2 gig for the
installer to run. If that is the case I 
  can tell the team they need to add that real requirement, no matter how
temporary it is to the box. 
  ~~ 
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IIS HACK PATCH INFO FOR CF CUSTOMERS

[Damon Cooper]

http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21412&Method=Full

Thanks

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RE: Review: CF 5.0

[Damon Cooper]

Dave, 

Good question.  It was several months back we did the Win2K-specific tuning,
and I don't have the agreement with MS in front of me, so I'll err on the
side of not getting into specifics on their end.

Note, however, that OS-specific (Linux and Windows) bottlenecks uncovered
only impacted performance in the 1-2% range by themselves and 

a) In the case of future Win2K Service Packs, these will not make CF4.x run
more than 1-2% faster, and 
b) most importantly, CF5 has all the tuning from our months of effort,
representing 98-99% of the gains built directly into the CF binaries,
by-passing the OS bottlenecks ColdFusion encounters (Windows & Linux)

OS vendors have to build & tune OS components to perform well in a wide
variety of workload mixes, but with CF5, we were able to identify & isolate
these areas, tune them specifically for our needs, and include the tuned
versions of the fixes directly into our binaries.  

The significant "juice" (98-98% of the gains) in CF5 came from elimination
of significant bottlenecks inside CF itself, at all levels (OS & runtime
levels being just one), and removing these artificial speed "governors"
let's ColdFusion 5 (for the first time CF history, really) run "full out",
without hindrance.  Of course, to boost things further, time-critical C++
code sections were identified and replaced with new high-speed C code,
providing significant performance gains separately.  It all added up in CF5
to really surprising gains in speed and SMP scalability.  

I certainly understand some healthy skepticism regarding the numbers
presented in the Performance Brief.  Frankly, when we ran the Final numbers,
with all our enhancements added in, we were skeptical as well.  We spent
about 3 weeks in the lab re-running and re-verifying to be sure what we were
seeing was real before accepting we had a winner.

The new memory management characteristics are the other "big win" as a
result of the extensive tuning done internally for CF5.  In most cases, CF5
starts with a VM Size of around 8MB, and depending on the application, will
grow as required, but on Windows and Linux, will intelligently acquire and
release large amounts of memory, keeping a good balance of performance and
VM size. 

If you look at it one way, CF 4.x and below never actually "ran" full-out
before.  They were hobbled by various bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the
engine, and drilling down deep in CF5 really paid off.  We hope you think so
as well, once see your CF apps under load under CF5.

I'll go into more detail and talk about some extra tuning characteristics
and fine-tuning switches in the User Conference talk.

-Original Message-
From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 1:08 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: 'Damon Cooper '
Subject: RE: Review: CF 5.0


> We spent several months analyzing and tuning the internals, 
> brought in top hired guns from Microsoft at one point in the 
> case of Windows 2000-specific tuning, and our discoveries 
> actually resulted in several Windows 2000 performance bottlenecks 
> & tweaks that should be rolled into future Microsoft Windows 2000 
> Service Packs at some point. It was a very fruitful exercise,
> as you can tell from the results in the CF5 Performance Brief.

For those of use too impatient to wait for Win2K SP 3+, and who don't want
to wait until DevCon either, would you care to post a bare-bones list of
those Win2K performance tweaks? I'm in the process of transitioning several
applications to CF 5 on Win2K, and would like to do it right as much as
possible.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444

~~
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RE: Review: CF 5.0

[Damon Cooper]

Hi Edwin, 

Regarding your question about the # Sim Req setting in the tests, the
results table on Page 12 simply documents the *optimal* setting on each
version of the product.  We tested all settings to find the optimal values
for CF4.5, then re-tested to find the optimal values for CF5.  Because CF5
has been so significantly tuned internally, the # Sim Req that was optimal
for your CF4.x server is no longer the optimal value for your CF5 server.
You'll need to re-tune to achieve the absolute maximum performance out of
CF5.  You'll see significant benefit over CF4.x just by upgrading, but to
really make things scream, tweaking the # Sim Requests under your typical
max load will get you some extra mileage.  

As the brief shows, the most dramatic results (5X and 4.5X) were achieved on
configurations where CF4.x performed the absolute *worst*: on machines with
more than one processor running Windows 2000 and Linux.

We spent several months analyzing and tuning the internals, brought in top
hired guns from Microsoft at one point in the case of Windows 2000-specific
tuning, and our discoveries actually resulted in several Windows 2000
performance bottlenecks & tweaks that should be rolled into future Microsoft
Windows 2000 Service Packs at some point.  It was a very fruitful exercise,
as you can tell from the results in the CF5 Performance Brief.

I would encourage all customers to spend a few minutes/hours re-tuning the #
Sim Req after upgrading to CF5 if their servers experience busy periods to
ensure they're getting the maximum possible scalability CF5 is capable of
(and it's nigh-and-day compared to the old CF4.x internals, believe me).
Results from our test application won't be as interesting to you as results
from testing your application on CF4.x vs CF5, obviously.  Like we did,
however, be sure to tune the # Sim Requests to be sure you're getting
maximum performance in both cases.

Hope that helps.  Since I'm heavily interested in ensuring customers get the
maximum performance & scalability benefit out of CF5, feel free to email me
directly if you have any other questions about the performance & scalability
of CF5.  I'll be doing the CF5 Windows Performance Tuning talk at the User
Conference as well, if you'll be there and want to discuss "what happened"
to CF5 internally further.

- Damon

-Original Message-
From: Edward Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 10:08 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Review: CF 5.0


I'm of the opinion that Macromedia cooked the benchmark results to get
what they wanted.  Either that, or I'm reading them wrong.  Macromedia's
benchmark document is here:

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/productinfo/performance_brief/
cf5_perf_brief.pdf

Please check out page 12 of the PDF.

In the table of settings, note that Macromedia set the 4.5 server to 1
thread per cpu.  This is contrary to their own 4.5 tuning specs, and
certainly nothing any of us would do on a production server
('simultaneous requests' in the table).  Am I reading this wrong?  On
the 5.0 server, they set to 4 threads per cpu.

I find it hard to believe that they would skew their testing so
obviously, but I can't  find any other conclusion.

Comments?


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UPDATE: Suggested Security Patch Workarounds

[Damon Cooper]

Unfortunately, Mike's proposed workaround below will not work.  There is no
known workaround to the issue.  It affects all servers, regardless of
application, security contexts, HTTP method filtering, port, etc.   

Unless you completely trust every end user who is able to connect to your
your ColdFusion server machine, the patch must be applied to production
servers to be secure from these vulnerabilities.

Please refer to the updated Security Bulletin on the Security Zone
(http://www.allaire.com/security) and associated FAQ for answers to these
and other commonly asked questions.

We can't overemphasize the importance of applying the patch immediately to
all affected servers.  

While we are not aware of any known exploit attempts using these
vulnerabilities, we believe it's just of time before hackers turn their
attention to this Bulletin and begin reverse engineering efforts to
determine the exploit details.  We want to give our customers the largest
window of opportunity to apply the patch before that happens.  It may just
be a matter of days before hackers successfully begin probing sites for
servers vulnerable to exploit attempts.

Fortunately, because the vulnerabilities were discovered internally in the
course of a routine product security audit, rather than external
notification, customers have the advantage at the moment of being notified
of the problem, have a patch available and can apply the fix before hackers
are able to begin probing expeditions.  But as we know, the clock is surely
ticking, so (again), it's critical that administrators apply the patch
without delay to protect their servers.

Please forward any direct inquiries regarding this or other product
security-related issues to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks

Damon Cooper

==
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 17:02:07 -0400 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Dinowitz) 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Subject: Re: Important ColdFusion Security Patch Released Today 
Message-ID: <00df01c10a4c$c56c83e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 

There is a potential workaround if what I'm seeing is true. Have your 
webserver block any HTTP method other than get and post. If your webserver
can do that, you should be safe. I'll say more later. 

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ColdFusion Server 5 Performance Brief Updated

[Damon Cooper]

fyi, the "ColdFusion Server 5 Performance Brief" has been updated with
performance testing numbers for 

- Linux (451SP2 vs. CF5) 
- Verity K2 Server (CFSEARCH using Verity VDK vs. Verity K2 Server) 

already in the paper is 

- Windows 2000 (451SP2 vs. CF5) 
- Solaris (451SP2 vs. CF5) 

http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/resources/ 
(click "Performance Brief" link) 

Thanks 
 

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RE: CF 5 Bug Vote

[Damon Cooper]

Thank you.  Noted.

-
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 02:48:08 -0400
From: "Pete Freitag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CF 5 Bug Vote
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I submitted Two Product Enhancements to Allaire:

#19879 - An Enhancement to the CFX API that would allow a CFX tag to. . .
#19880 - XML Parsing Tags, or Functions - sure you can do this with CFX . .
.

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RE: CF 5.0 "Bug Vote" is Now Open!

[Damon Cooper]

Cool.  Again, of course we are striving towards the ultimate goal of zero
defects, but we have to prioritize what we work on with limited resources.
Having the developer community have input into the prioritization process
helps us with scheduling, etc and also helps make sure you get the fixes you
hit everyday fixed first, early in the 5.0 Beta process.

I'll take bug reports no matter what format they're in.  It would obviously
make our lives a little easier if they were entered in the Bug Reporter at
http://beta.allaire.com/bart with reproducible cases or instructions, but
we'll take 'em as you send 'em.

Fire them at me please.

If you find a new reproducible crash, at least a t-shirt is in order :)


Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:12:10 -0700
From: "Jaime Garza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: CF 5.0 "Bug Vote" is Now Open!
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Thanks Damon, it adds a touch of freshness to your organization.  It also
adds certain passion and exposure, so beware!

I have not entered any bug in your DB, but I have been entering a group of
things in this forum with SP2 in the subject, hoping you or somebody from
Allaire would catch up.  Would you take care of those, or do you need us to
resubmit those in a different format?  Most of mine are mostly feature
requests.  It will be nice if you just create an e-mail called
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and we send them there, and your engineers reproduce and
categorize them for us.

Hey, I have an idea!  If we find something your QA staff has not found,
would you give us a free 5.0 Professional edition?

Jaime Garza
Director of Development
Celosis, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
(510) 814-3019

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RE: CF-Talk V1 #81

[Damon Cooper]

Larry, make sure you are on 451 SP1, and if possible, sign up for the SP2
Release Candidate, where we've fixed a multitude of CFHTTP (used by the
scheduler), CFMAIL, CFPOP, CFFILE and other important bugs.


Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:26:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Larry W. Virden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SPARC Solaris site frustrated with ColdFusion
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: What is causing your site to crash?

If we knew that, we would be half way home to a fix ...

Seriously, over the past year we have run into a variety of 
problems, most of which _SEEM_ to be related to the fact that we 
are frequently running ColdFusion on a 14 CPU enterprise sized 
SPARC Solaris box with Solaris 2.6.  When we move the ColdFusion 
app to a 'puny' box with 2 or 4 CPUs, the problems are either not 
seen, or at least so infrequently seen as to be considered gone.

As I have stated, we are seeing crashes, hangs, CFSCHEDULE 
hanging, etc.

Frankly, the Solaris system admins are threatening to remove 
ColdFusion from the production environment, since it causes so 
much grief...  That's one reason why I am wondering what others 
are using in place of ColdFusion - since they don't seem to be 
able to get it to be stable, we need to find something either 
stable or open source so we can fix it ourselves...


-- 
Larry W. Virden mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
http://www.purl.org/net/lvirden/>
Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this 
posting
should be construed as representing my employer's opinions.

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RE: CF 5.0 "Bug Vote" is Now Open!

[Damon Cooper]

My intention was to simply and directly involve the CF developer community
in this, similar to what Sun has done with their Bug Parade Voting here:

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/recently_closed.html

Bit of a "pilot project".  

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Re: CF 5.0 "Bug Vote" is Now Open!

[Damon Cooper]

I want to make sure that you, our customers, have a major say in what goes
into the release.  We are reviewing all existing bug entries and will
include what we believe to be top priority issues, but what YOU believe to
be issues are really what's important.


Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:48:20 -0600
From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CF 5.0 "Bug Vote" is Now Open!
Message-ID: <06e001c03e14$e3da3390$062fa8ce@jimm>

If you have known bugs in CF 4.x (well, not *if*), why would you knowingly
release the next major revision without correcting them  Are you stating
that unless someone "votes" to remove a bug, we can expect to see it
perpetuated in the next release?  Do bug fixes have that low of a priority
at Allaire?

Jim

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CF 5.0 "Bug Vote" is Now Open!

[Damon Cooper]

Register your bug for the Most Wanted list that will be targeted for
inclusion in CF 5.0!

Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=CF%5.0%20Bug%Vote to vote
your CF Bugs in! (Bug Reporter #'s required, please).   

If you don't have a Bug Reporter #, you can enter and create one
using the Bug Reporter at
http://beta.allaire.com/bugreport/beta_bugtrack.cfm
If you aren't signed up on the Beta site, NEW Beta customers can
sign up at http://beta.allaire.com/bart.  

Regards, 

Damon Cooper
CF Release Manager
Allaire

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ColdFusion Server 4.5.1 SP2 RC on Windows NT, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX Now Available for Download

[Damon Cooper]

ColdFusion Server 4.5.1 SP2 RC on Windows NT, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX Now
Available for Download 

Release Notes
<http://beta.allaire.com/betadocs/coldfusion451sp2rc/releasenotes.htm> 

Signing Up 
NEW beta customers can sign up for and get the Release Candidate at
http://beta.allaire.com/bart.  Customers can either create a new login, or
add beta access privileges to their existing login. 

EXISTING beta customers have received notification directly, and can
access the Release Candidate through http://beta.allaire.com.

When you encounter problems, questions or issues please use the following
methods: 

Beta Forums  http://beta.allaire.com/betaconf/index.cfm
Post questions and dialog with developers and Allaire staff in the
Beta Forums at http://beta.allaire.com

Bug Reporter http://beta.allaire.com/bugreport/beta_bugtrack.cfm
Report bugs or suggest product enhancements with Bug/Enhancement
Reporter also on the beta site

Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Contact us at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you encounter any problems
with downloading the software. 


Regards, 

Damon Cooper
CF Release Manager
Allaire

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RE: SP2 Enhancement Speculation (was Threading Issue)

[Damon Cooper]

Docs to get you started will be included in the SP2 Release Candidate, due
out shortly on the Allaire Beta site.  


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RE: Threading Issue

[Damon Cooper]

Folks, please take a look at these important articles:

http://www.allaire.com/handlers/index.cfm?ID=17421&Method=Full&PageCall=/sup
port/index.cfm
http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=14709&Method=Full

Although they reference OLEDB and MS Access, we've had customers report your
symptoms, apply these fixes and get going fine again.

Additionally, CF 451 SP2 will address several potentially related problems
with CFHTTP (used by the scheduler), CFPOP, CFMAIL, CFFTP, CFEXECUTE and
other commonly reported problems.  The Release Candidate for SP2 should be
out this week.  You'll be able to get it from http://beta.allaire.com.  

Unfortunately, I'm not on this mailing list, so please address any
correspondence to me directly at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Here is a list of enhancements and included bug fixes that will be in SP2:

Enhancements
19341   Add StructGet()
19342   Add StructAppend()
19343   Add StructSort()
19344   Add StructFindKey() and StructFindValue()
19345   MTS library for HP-UX (HP-UX only)
19208   Unbuffer CFSTAT output so file writes are real time
19146   IsWDDX() and WDDX XML validation
18965   Native Oracle CLOB support
17873   Informix 2.3 & 2.5 client lib support 

P1 Bug Fixes:   
19362   On NT, existing SiteMinder settings are not
preserved
19123,19112,19317   Broken CFEXECUTE and CFOUTPUT in SP1
16334   RDS and Informix on NT didn't work
18389   Security/Solaris Cfexec restart of Security Proxy
18338, 17121LSNumberFormat and NumberFormat problems
19586   CFPOP header parse prob if not "content-x" (x=7
items)
18459   CFMail-'Unable to Write Mail Message to Disk'
19325   CFPOP not retrieving all values from a Netscape
server
19365   In certain circumstances CFHTTP crashes under load
18820   Oracle native driver Euro/US date format problem
16423   Oracle native driver crash with PL/SQL arg
marshalling
15776   CFMAIL recipients truncated at 246 characters
18191,18314 CFHTTP Post failure (but redirects must be absolute
url)
18311   CFHTTP 'Connection Failure' error if status code =
204 
18246   CFPOP unknown exception condition
18811,18211 POP3 enhancement
19587   CFHTTP crashes w/load w/unresolvable server
reference
19520   CFHTTP crashes w/very long form variables posted
19519   CFHTTP crashes w/XML post in certain circumstances
19236   Using UUID's for CFToken on Linux crashes under load
19246   Missing Verity files on Linux (indexing Word docs,
etc)
19248   CFFILE added dot separator on Unix 
19240   CFHTTPPARAM type=file on dir unexpected exception
19198   String out of bounds error on Mid
19145   CFSTAT permission-related problems
19010   CFFILE/move problem on Unix file systems
17543   Locale Date Support - Solaris
10115   European dates broken in Solaris CF 4.5+ (verify)
19003   CFFTP connection bug (via TomJ)
12523   Unix, LSParseDateTime only functions for US english.
18991   CFHTTP on Linux crash with >4k content
18234, 17792MS SQLServer problems on Linux
18947   Error on subsequent Java CFX invocations in some
cases
16967   Unlocked access to Server scope on CFAdmin
16663   MIME attached over regular WAP gateway (UTF-8).  
17601   COM Threading Model Changes
18058, 16875Applet interface in CFAdmin problems with parm
fields
18607   MSAccess bug hangs CF on Win2k/SP1
18579   Security Administration Bug - cfm file change
18778       Scheduled tasks don't run with CFREGISTRY disabled


Thanks

Damon Cooper
ColdFusion Release Manager
Allaire

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RE: ColdFusion SP2

[Damon Cooper]

The UNC issue is likely a permissions problem.  CFContent is executed by the
CFExec process...make sure that's running as a user with network
permissions.  For DirectoryExists, be sure the cfserver process is running
as a user with network permissions as well.

WDDX validation will be in SP2.  


-Original Message-
From: JustinMacCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ColdFusion SP2 


I should also add DirectoryExists and UNC paths issues . Dosen't seem to
work . Is this a confirmed bug also?

Where can I get a list of confirm bugs?

Justin MacCarthy


> Issues with cfcontent over UNC paths. Is this a confirmed Allaire Bug ??
>
> Also
>
> Using cfwddx :
> Some sort of error returned, gracefully,  if a wddx packet is not valid
> would be nice.
>
> Justin MacCarthy
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Damon Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: RE: ColdFusion SP2
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RE: Reliability of CFSCHEDULE in CF 4.5.1. SP2?

[Damon Cooper]

Jaime, 

That's not quite accurate.  CFExec does not submit the two tasks
simultaneously.  You may have a low limit on Simultaneous Requests.  Each
scheduled task takes two threads if the target url for the task is on the
same server - one to run the cfschedule and in turn cfschedule uses cfhttp
to post the url which (again if on the same server ) uses another request
and uses a thread.  Now if both scheduled task are long running request then
you will be tying up 4 threads for that time and the server could appear
hung.

Also, be sure you're on SP1.

Thanks


> 
> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 09:30:52 -0700
> From: "Jaime Garza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Reliability of CFSCHEDULE in CF 4.5.1.  SP2?
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> I know that if you schedule two tasks to start at the same time in Cold
> Fusion Scheduler, it may hang your Cold Fusion.  It took me weeks to get
> to
> this knowledge.
> 
> Allaire guys, can this be looked at as part of SP2 if possible?
> 
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RE: ColdFusion SP2 -install issues

[Damon Cooper]

Point taken.  We're signed up for full kits (require regular registration #)
as well as update kits for SP2.

Thanks

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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:27:23 -0400
From: "Al Musella, DPM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: ColdFusion SP2 -install issues
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

  I don't remember if SP1 worked this way or not, but my biggest request 
would be for EVERY new version of CF - be able to be installed  without 
having installed a previous version.   I ran into trouble once where my 
webserver died. I had to rebuild everything. I forget which version of CF 
it was, but it wouldn't install. I had to install the previous version 
first. Luckily I had CDs of many versions with me (the server is co-located 
an hour from my house).  I installed the next most recent version, then 
tried to install the current version, and it still wasn't happy. I had to 
go back, unistall CF, then install an even older version, then the current 
version allowed me to install it. It was a big waste of time - while my 
webserver was down. It would have been much worse if I didn't have the 
previous cds with me.

That may be an acceptable form of copy protection for a game, but not 
for a server product, where lost time is money.

Al Musella, DPM
President
Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research & Information
virtualtrials.com
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Re: TO ALL: Request for ColdFusion SP2 Input

[Damon Cooper]

Peter, someone should be contacting you shortly for details.

Thanks


Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 01:50:36 -0400
From: Peter Theobald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Damon Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TO ALL: Request for ColdFusion SP2 Input
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Cold Fusion Studio crashes a Win98 system every time due to resource
problems.
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Re: TO ALL: Request for ColdFusion SP2 Input

[Damon Cooper]

Peter, the Sybase Open Client for Linux threading issue has nothing to do
with Allaire or ColdFusion.  The issue is that Open Client for Linux is
currently single threaded.  

>From Sybase:

"The current releases of OpenClient for Linux are NOT thread-safe.  I'm told
this is because of the thread-safe issues within Linux the libio <->
libpthread combination.  Much development work is going on within this
arena.  We have decided with not releasing the threadsafe libraries until
the known LinuxThreads issues are resolved."

"...the Linux OpenClient 11.1.1 version is not thread safe.  It is scheduled
for 12.5 the last time I looked."

Here are some references:
http://webforums.sybase.com/nntp/nd58.nsf/docid/7f2c456f0362933d67523d4c
c92f8a4d
http://webforums.sybase.com/nntp/nd58.nsf/docid/735711d681681b03ad4743cc
3da7c977
http://webforums.sybase.com/nntp/nd33.nsf/docid/c403d2b1120d10c5bcbc605e
f832ba6f


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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 01:45:39 -0400
From: Peter Theobald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Damon Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TO ALL: Request for ColdFusion SP2 Input
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Thread-safe Sybase drivers on Linux would be nice :-)

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RE: Oracle Native Drivers & Clob

[Damon Cooper]

The current ColdFusion Oracle native driver supports CLOB retrieval, but not
updates.  18965 will allow updates to work as well.

-Original Message-
From: Mike Amburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:41 AM
To: Damon Cooper
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Oracle Native Drivers & Clob


> Currently, here's a summary of bug fixes slated for SP2:
> 
> 18965 Native Oracle CLOB support

does this mean that the current native driver doesn't support CLOB?

-mike
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RE: ColdFusion SP2

[Damon Cooper]

Yes, wddx validation is also slated for SP2 (both internally and via a new
isWddx() function).

The cfcontent + UNC issue (#4696) is currently a Must-Be-Fixed issue for
5.0.  

For others, here's a refresher of the issue (borrowed from the text of the
issue):

"Although UNC support in the stub (where CFCONTENT resides) would be nice,
the larger issue here is file permissions, since the stub must run as part
of the web server. For those of us using IIS (which can't run as anything
but System), we are effectively blocked from using CFCONTENT directly on
networked files, since networked files can't seem to be shared with the
System account on another machine. Our only recourse has been to copy the
files locally first, which has a number of its own problems. 

I know you had said that CFCONTENT was moved to the stub to prevent its
taking up a program thread for the duration of a download, but my request
would be to move it back to the CF Server and extend the thread model so
that CFCONTENT threads were treated differently. Perhaps they could not
count towards the administratively limited thread count. 

At any rate, the ability to use all CF tags -- particularly an important one
like CFCONTENT -- with a consistent permissions scheme is very important. It
is something I hope Allaire recognizes as one of the real issues here. "

Thanks



-Original Message-
From: JustinMacCarthy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ColdFusion SP2 


Issues with cfcontent over UNC paths. Is this a confirmed Allaire Bug ??

Also

Using cfwddx :
Some sort of error returned, gracefully,  if a wddx packet is not valid
would be nice.

Justin MacCarthy

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RE: ColdFusion SP2

[Damon Cooper]

Excellent. I'm forwarding your comments to the Studio team, and I know they
appreciate it.
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TO ALL: Request for ColdFusion SP2 Input

[Damon Cooper]

Folks, 

ColdFusion Service Pack 2 is under construction, and I'd like to get your
feedback on what you believe to be Must-Be-Fixed items.

While Service Pack 1 focused heavily on stability and performance issues
(across platform and Unix-specific), we'd like to nail as many serious
feature and tag bugs as possible, although the release cycle will be
significantly shorter (shooting for an early November release).

Currently, here's a summary of bug fixes slated for SP2:

18965   Native Oracle CLOB support
18389   Security/Solaris Cfexec restart of Security Proxy
17873   Informix 2.3 & 2.5 client lib support 
15776   CFMAIL recipients truncated at 246 characters
18191,18237,18314   CFHTTP Post failure (but redirects must still be an
absolute url)
18338, 17121LSNumberFormat and NumberFormat problems
16663   MIME attached over regular WAP gateway (UTF-8).  
19010   CFFILE/move problem on Unix file systems
17601   COM Threading Model Changes
18311   CFHTTP 'Connection Failure' error if the status code
is 204 
18246   CFPOP unknown exception condition
18811   POP3 enhancement
18058, 16875Applet interface in CFAdmin problems with parm
fields
18607   MSAccess bug hangs CF on Win2k/SP1
18579   Secuirty Administration Bug - cfm file change
17543   Locale Date Support - Solaris
10115   European dates broken in Solaris CF 4.5+ 
19003   CFFTP connection bug 
12523   Unix, LSParseDateTime only functions for US english.
18991   CFHTTP on Linux crash with >4k content
18234, 17792MS SQLServer problems on Linux
18778   Scheduled tasks don't run with CFREGISTRY disabled

I can't promise anything, but this release is for you, and I want to make
sure you're heard.  Please either post to the list or send email directly to
me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and reference your Allaire Issue/Bug # if you have
one.

Thanks

Damon Cooper
ColdFusion Release Manager 
Allaire
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CF 4.5.1 Service Pack 1 Release Notes Available

[Damon Cooper]

Due to popular demand, I've had the SP1 Release Notes added directly to the
site.

Just follow the home page SP1 link: http://www.allaire.com

Thanks

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CF 4.5.1 Service Pack 1 Available

[Damon Cooper]

Links are available from the Allaire home page http://www.allaire.com, and
Release Notes in each download detail the changes and fixes.

Thanks

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Last post: How do I Optimize Win 2000 (IIS) for Warp speed with Cold

[Damon Cooper]

For environmental performance tuning tips that work (all platforms), check
out:

http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=11772&Method=Full
http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=11773&Method=Full

On Win2000, be forewarned that you'll experience about a 17-20% performance
degradation over NT 4.0.  This is with the ZDLabs ServerBench 4.1 CPU suite
of tests in our labs.  

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Re: CF Solaris 4.51 SP1 Alpha

[Damon Cooper]

Larry, assuming your environment configuration is fine (please see Allaire
KB Article 11772 and 11773), and you're doing a straight comparison of NT
and Solaris, there are a few things to be aware of: 

First, there are hardware platform differences. 

In our labs, we've verified that a comparable Sun machine (2-way E220R,
450MHz, 512MB RAM, compared against an Intel machine: Compaq 1850R, 2-way,
500MHz, 512MB RAM) is about 38% slower than the Intel machine, using ZDLabs'
ServerBench 4.1 CPU Suite, taking Allaire products out of the picture. This
was somewhat unexpected, given the general consensus out there regarding the
Sun platform. You generally get better platform stability, but not
necessarily better performance than comparable Intel hardware. Feel free to
download the suite from ZDLabs and try the CPU benchmark on your hardware. 

Second, we've made significant strides on the performance, SMP scalability
and stability fronts in CF Solaris 451 SP1. SP1 is not yet final, but the
Alpha is available from http://beta.allaire.com. You should experience a
significant improvment in performance, scalability and stability in SP1.
Several customers are running on the Alpha with very  positive results.
Even with the platform differences, we have reports of performance and
scalability on Sun hardware meeting and exceeding those of CF NT 451
platform: a fairly significant gain. 

If you have not already, I would encourage you to carefully review the two
KB articles above for environmental tunings you can make, and sign up for
the CF Solaris 451 SP1 beta porgram. If you have issues with CF Solaris 451
SP1, please post them to the Beta Forums at http://beta.allaire.com.

Thanks 

Damon Cooper
Enterprise Lab Manager
Allaire
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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 05:17:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Larry W. Virden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CF Solaris 4.51 SP1 Alpha
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I'm not certain what the specific patch levels are of the Solaris 4.51
version we're currently working with, but it is really a pain.

Crashes, cfschedule not going off and not reporting why, etc. on a
regular basis.  So far, Allaire support has had no success in pinning down
the problems.
 
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
Larry W. Virden <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/>
Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should

be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
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Server Optimization Settings

[Damon Cooper]

Check out Allaire KB Article 11772 and 11773 for recommended tuning and
optimization settings for various platforms and web servers.

I keep these up to date based on Allaire Enterprise Lab test data and
settings.  

Please bring any other settings (Win 2000 or otheriwise) that should be
considered for these articles to my attention.  The articles are meant to be
relavent for JRun, ColdFusion and Spectra customers on all platforms.

A batch of Apache and Linux tuning information will be added in the next
couple weeks.

Damon Cooper
Enterprise Lab Manager
Allaire
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