Perhaps. As I've stated before (in this forum, I think), there's really nothing special or tricky in Blackstone that we shouldn't be able to implement fairly quickly in BlueDragon. Blackstone is an incremental feature release without fundamental architectural changes, such as CFCs or the reimplementation in Java that we got in CFMX (Macromedia is even touting the lack of architectural changes and incremental nature of Blackstone as a "feature", since it implies--correctly--stability of the release).
Based on information that's publicly available, we've already prototyped the major Blackstone features in BlueDragon--such as CFDOCUMENT and the message gateway. Which new features of Blackstone do you consider "must have"? It's interesting, though, that Blackstone is managing to close the gap with BlueDragon, adding some features that BlueDragon has had for more than two years: - standard J2EE WAR/EAR deployment - support for WebSphere Network Deployment clusters - "source-less" precompiled CFML templates - serialization of CFCs - CFIMAGE tag Vince > -----Original Message----- > From: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:50 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Bluedragon Server > > While that may be true, it seems probable the the release of > Blackstone will further create a gap between actual CFMX and BD > > > - Calvin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vince Bonfanti > Date: 11/4/04 6:49 am > To: CF-Talk > Subj: RE: Bluedragon Server > > I should have said: in BlueDragon 6.2, the list of > incompatibilities is even shorter, but the list of > enhancements is longer. > > Vince > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vince Bonfanti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 7:46 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: Bluedragon Server > > > > Actually, that's not quite true. The BlueDragon 6.1 CFML > Compatibility > > Guide is indeed 44 pages (PDF). However, the first 7 pages > are title > > page, table of contents, intro, etc. > > Then everything from page 15 to 44 describes enhancements > that BD 6.1 > > provides that aren't supported by ColdFusion (such as > CFIMAGE, CFIMAP, > > etc.). So only pages 8 through 14, inclusive (a total of > > 7 pages), describe BD "limitations", most of the document describes > > BlueDragon enhancements. > > > > In BlueDragon 6.2, the list of incompatibilities is even shorter. > > > > Regards, > > > > Vince Bonfanti > > New Atlanta Communications, LLC > > http://www.newatlanta.com > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 7:29 AM > > > To: CF-Talk > > > Subject: Re: Bluedragon Server > > > > > > Keep in mind. There is 44 pages of variance where BD does > > not work in > > > the same fashion as the actual CFMX product that you will want to > > > factor into your decision making. > > > > > > > > > - Calvin > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:183399 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
