On Wednesday, Dec 11, 2002, at 07:11 US/Pacific, Joshua Miller wrote: > I know this is probably nothing special, but getting an easy-to-install > CFML engine on my Mac just made my day!
I just posted the following to the BACFUG list - after Vince's presentation to the user group tonight. ||| forwarded message ||| I found Vince's talk about JSP for CFers very interesting. I am somewhat familiar with JSP but to see a side-by-side comparison like this was enlightening, especially the section on the new JSTL specification. Vince's demo of BlueDragon - more or less in place of the usual Q&A session - was also worth seeing. Vince showed how you can develop CF applications using BD on Tomcat and then deploy as a 'compiled' Web Archive file to a different J2EE application server - he took Ben Forta's CF5 Construction Kit as an example, showed it running on BD/Tomcat and then created a .war file which he then deployed to BEA's WebLogic and showed it running. Impressive. And, as I had to concede, something that is not possible with CFMX at the moment. I had already downloaded both the Tomcat installer and the BlueDragon trial about a month ago but had been too busy to actually install either. While Vince talked, I installed Tomcat and BlueDragon in just a few minutes: tar xvfz jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12.tar.gz mv jakarta-tomcat-4.1.12 /home/tomcat tar xvfz BlueDragon.tar.gz cp -r BlueDragon_J2EE /home/tomcat/webapps/bd cd /home/tomcat/bin ./startup.sh Then hit http://localhost:8080/bd/bluedragon/admin.cfm and explored the BlueDragon administrator. Simple but effective. The developer edition pops up an alert every 20 requests which is kind of annoying but a very effective way to ensure no one tries to deploy to production! Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.