On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 12:30 , Ilyinsky, Igor wrote: > The original question was a windows specific one (see subject), so the > fact that ColdFusion does not run as a service is indeed important when > starting and stopping
As Dave Watts pointed out, starting and stopping the service just uses a Windows program to start/stop the CFMX application on the app server. > From what I understand, with the J2EE version, you do not start and stop > ColdFusion itself, you start and stop the app server (or instance that CF > is running on). This is true of CFMX standalone since it runs on top of JRun. You can start and stop CFMX independent of the underlying app server (JRun). You also have multiple 'application servers' (default, samples - check your runtime\servers directory). So it isn't really a big jump between standalone (CFMX running on a 'captive' JRun) and "for J2EE" (CFMX running on JRun 4). > Additionally, the fact that ColdFusion is no longer using the registry to > store data (on Windows of course) is yet another major architectural > difference. Since the Unix version doesn't use the registry anyway, I don't consider this an architectural change. Most of the configuration for CFMX is *not* in the registry anyway, even for standalone - it's in XML files on disk. > Also, the fact that you can literally "copy and paste" a completely new > instance of ColdFusion Server, to run independently of any others on the > same server, to me, is a HUGE architectural difference. I suspect the only reason you can't really do this with the standalone version is that the 'captive' JRun engine has that feature disabled. Architecturally, the change from CF5 to CFMX was huge, I agree, but the changes between CFMX standalone and CFMX for J2EE are fairly small. > I assumed this thread was about ColdFusion's interaction with JRun and > IIS. Please correct me if I am wrong. I vaguely remember how the thread started, but since no one changed the subject line when it went off-topic, it's difficult to tell :) Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
