By barneyb on June 27, 2008
Railo dropped a second beta last night. Get it here. They've also added a WAR download, though it only works when installed into an existing "express" installation. Hopefully that'll get addressed for the next release.
A couple shining points about the runtime:
Array and Struct literals (the [...] and {…} notation) are expressions, exactly [...]
Posted in cfml, railo
By barneyb on June 23, 2008
I just got a JIRA notice that Michael fixed Railo so that arrays and structs implement java.util.List and java.util.Map respectively. This is great news, because it means it's now possible to pass nested arrays and structs to Java APIs without having to manually rewrap them. From the ticket, it looks like the fix [...]
Posted in cfml, railo
By barneyb on June 19, 2008
As is typically the case, CFUNITED has a pair of themes. There's the conference theme, which, as always, is helping CF coders become more empowered by learning about new things (OO, using CFCs, learning frameworks, etc.), and then there's the "backtheme". This year it's all don't use only CF. Adobe's integrating Hibernate into CF9, Railo [...]
Posted in bluedragon, cfml, coldfusion, development, grails, groovy, personal, railo
By barneyb on June 6, 2008
Those of you who remember CF Rhino will recognize the name for my latest little project. I whipped up a small proof-of-concept integration for Groovy into CF apps tonight while playing with some classloading issues within Groovy itself.
Groovy has a number of advantages for this type of integration of JavaScript, the biggest one being [...]
Posted in bluedragon, cfml, coldfusion, groovy, railo
