Jim,
With the ColdFusion MX 7 ear/war deployment, you can precompile and
preconfigure your application and deploy them across the whole enterprise. And
since they are packages like the J2EE admins expect, they don't have to know
beans about CF.
The only item in the WebSphere cluster we don't do is the "vertical"
clustering, where multiple instances of CF share the same *filesystem*.
Because we write configuration stuff to the disk (and other things like mail)
the instances stomp on each other.
But on the whole, ColdFusion MX works very nicely on WebSphere. It goes *real*
fast and scales well too. One of the reasons for moving CF to Java was to give
people like yourself ("We only do WebSphere here") a fully supported path to
move their CF apps on to the corporate mandated infrastructure.
Hope that helps.
--
Tom Jordahl
Macromedia Server Development
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Norloff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:54 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: CF 7 on WebSphere - what's the beef with Clustering?
>
> I've dealt with that. The problem is that CFMX Admin doesn't propagate
> changes across the WebSphere cluster. Other than that, it's robust.
>
> What we did was make all the changes in CFMX's neo-*.xml files, and just
> used a script to copy those across the cluster. Much better than opening
> CFMX admin on all nodes!
>
> This worked with 30 to 90 instances of CFMX in our cluster (WAS v5.0 ND
> and v5.1 ND).
>
> Chris Norloff
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Calvin Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:59:35 -0400
>
> >Are you using Session variables?
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:22 PM
> >To: CF-Talk
> >Subject: CF 7 on WebSphere - what's the beef with Clustering?
> >
> >We're (finally!) considering upgrading our largeish collection of CF 4.5
> apps to CF 7.
> >
> >The enterprise architecture is WebSphere on AIX. Our current CF apps
> would cost too much to convert to pure JSP/Java but are all hosted on NT 4
> which we've only been able to bribe MS to support through the end of the
> year.
> >
> >So, an option is to deploy our CF apps to WebSphere. However (there's
> always a "but" even if it's a "however") I'm getting challenged on it's
> scalability and deployment options because of the following CF
> requirement/limitation (from Macromedia):
> >
> >"IBM WebSphere Application Server ââ?¬â?? Network Deployment, Version
> 5.0, 5.0.2, 5.1 Non-Clustered, Single Server Only (Vertical and horizontal
> clustering not supported. Use of the Network Deployment console for
> deployment of ColdFusion applications is also not supported.)"
> >
> >Anybody have any insight into this? I know that CF will scale vertically
> (via multiple instances) and horizontally across machines - what exactly
> are they talking about here?
> >
> >Is there any way around this issue?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jim Davis
> >
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