Re: ColdFusion 9 on Java 8

2015-03-12 Thread Scott Stewart
This is googleable uhmmm.. thanks Captain Obvious, here's your cape :P From what I was able to dig up ColdFusion 9 is a no go with Java 8. There are hotfixes available for 10 and 11... of course there's always Railo/Lucee .. On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Eric Roberts

Re: ColdFusion 9 on Java 8

2015-03-12 Thread Wil Genovese
Unless I missed it, Adobe has not certified ColdFusion 9.0.x on Java 8. — Remember this as I continue Also, Adobe ColdFusion 9.x.x reached End Of Life back on December 31st, 2014. http://www.trunkful.com/index.cfm/2014/11/24/ColdFusion-9-Reaches-End-Of-Life-Long-Live-ColdFusion —

Re: ColdFusion 9 on Java 8

2015-03-12 Thread Eric Roberts
This is googleable...i was just looking for a similar solution with 10...you ar going to have to move several files from the sdk jre directory...one is tools.jar and msvcr1000.dll (I think)...you also have to change the java home setting in cfadmin to the jre directory in the sdk as well.

Re: ColdFusion 9 on Java 8

2015-03-12 Thread Wil Genovese
So is this still a Windows 2003 server too? :D Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com wilg...@trunkful.com www.trunkful.com On Mar 12, 2015, at 9:59 AM, Scott Stewart webmas...@sstwebworks.com wrote: Wil, that's what I'm pushing

Re: ColdFusion 9 on Java 8

2015-03-12 Thread Scott Stewart
Wil, that's what I'm pushing for. The powers that be having been dragging their feet on upgrading. This may be just the thing to push them over. On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote: Unless I missed it, Adobe has not certified ColdFusion 9.0.x on Java 8.

Re: ColdFusion 9 on Java 8

2015-03-12 Thread Scott Stewart
No, they seem to keep up with Microsoft releases :) On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Wil Genovese jugg...@trunkful.com wrote: So is this still a Windows 2003 server too? :D Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com

Re: ColdFusion 9 on Java 8

2015-03-12 Thread Scott Stewart
It's a COTS app (CommonSpot) They've already produced a code base that will support 11. On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Dan G. Switzer, II dswit...@pengoworks.com wrote: You may find the jump from CF9 to CF10/11 to require changes to your app. I know the change for us was not

Re: ColdFusion 9 on Java 8

2015-03-12 Thread Dan G. Switzer, II
You may find the jump from CF9 to CF10/11 to require changes to your app. I know the change for us was not straightforward. Make sure you plan for an extensive QA cycle after upgrading. One of the biggest issues we ran into was with date/time conversions. We store everything in UTC. Adobe changed

ColdFusion 9 on Java 8

2015-03-12 Thread Scott Stewart
Oracle is EOL'ing Java 7 in February. The agency that I work for is going to require upgrades to Java 8. Does anyone know definitively whether or not ColdFusion 9 will work on Java 8. We are in deep poop if it doesn't. Thanks sas -- -- Scott Stewart Adobe Certified Instructor, ColdFusion 8

Re: ColdFusion 9 on Java 8

2015-03-12 Thread Andy G
Also, don't forget that with Java 8 you will not have access to any ODBC datasources as they have removed the JDBC-ODBC bridge in Java 1.8. This is a non-issue for most, but for company's like ours that provide middleware for legacy applications using older dBase, FoxPro, etc. back ends,