By Peter Bell

Railo: Enough Already!

Posted At : April 9, 2009 9:35 AM | Posted By : Peter Bell
Related Categories: ColdFusion, Railo
I've been posting quite a bit this week about why I chose to head up Railo US, but I want to sum up some of the key points. Next week I'll be looking at some of the awesome features that Railo provides.

I see Railo as being an excellent opportunity for the CFML community and probably as a good thing for Adobe. I'm excited to have a language by developers, for developers that we can use to keep high end CFML developers on the stack while still making hard things easy for everyone (you should check out how easy our cluster cache is!).

I'm excited by the jboss announcement as it is finally bringing CFML to the broader Java community and am looking forwards to the chance to bring Railo to both existing CFML developers (to give them yet more reasons to stay with CFML - or in the case of some, to bring them *back* to CFML) and to new potential CFML developers as part of our outreach activities.

Join us in building a CFML engine that we can all be excited about, and have a play with Railo. Download it, try it out on a couple of applications and see how it works for yourself and your business.

Oh, and if you have any money to burn, we offer a full range of Railo and ColdFusion consulting services, Railo support contracts and Railo training courses, so if you're interested, just drop me a line!

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I saw the Google released JVM support for their App Engine. I attempted to load up the Railo jars into a web app, but I do not know enough about the Java server configurations to make it work quite yet. Someone who knows what their doing could probably easily set it up. This could really introduce some interesting Google powered CFML apps, especially with integration with their datastore, user accounts, etc....
# Posted By Garrett Johnson | 4/9/09 10:27 AM
I think it'd be great. It's definitely something we'll be investigating shortly. Personally I missed the first 10,000 slots (or I assume I did as I didn't get an email). Not sure about the rest of the team . . .
# Posted By Peter Bell | 4/9/09 11:51 AM
If that's possible, it's definitely something that would keep me with CF
# Posted By Gary | 4/9/09 11:15 PM
Well, looks like I got a slot, but there are clearly going to be some technical challenges getting this working. Will keep everyone posted.
# Posted By Peter Bell | 4/10/09 3:36 AM
Peter,

I second it... Getting CFML on App Engine would be ANOTHER CFML leap for mankind ;)
# Posted By Automaxion | 4/12/09 9:20 PM
Did someone say, "CFML on Google App Engine"?

http://vbonfanti.appspot.com/index.cfm

:-)
# Posted By Vince Bonfanti | 4/14/09 3:40 PM
@Vince, Congrats - that's pretty impressive!
# Posted By Peter Bell | 4/14/09 4:05 PM
@Vince

Now, you know you're not just gonna get away with that without a tutorial - OR - a preconfigured drop-in OpenBD installation setup, RIGHT??? ...We, the cf community, know exactly where & what time you work ;)
# Posted By Automaxion | 4/14/09 5:51 PM
There's more info here:

http://groups.google.com/group/openbd/browse_threa...

If you're interested, keep an eye on the OpenBD discussion groups for announcements of public code drops, etc.
# Posted By Vince Bonfanti | 4/14/09 9:46 PM
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