hi there, just take a look at the performance tests we did with railo alfa 4 in comparison to cfmx. http://www.railo.ch/en/documentation/index.cfm?treeID=30 We have a lot of improvements and in railo and no big limitations (except for the couple of tags and functions that we still have to implement). Take the scope cascading for example. By turning it off you can boost the performance of railo greatly. Scope cascading allows you to implicitly reference variables. For example you can write the statement <cfset test = Name>. The variable Name has no Scope-Qualifier so Railo normaly checks the usual scopes (in a predefined order [variables, current query, form, url a.s.o.]) to find it. You can turn this behaviour off so that you have to write <cfset test = url.Name>. This leads to a large improvement in execution-speed. And adding to this the code can be easier read. Of course this is a (configurable) limitation, but with the advantages you get, you won't consider it to be a limitation.
Check out www.railo.com for updates. We plan to release Railo Beta in the first quarter of 2005. <cfregards from="Gert Franz" who="railo developer" location="switzerland" respondto="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. November 2004 22:18 An: CF-Talk Betreff: Re: Bluedragon Server Well, my speculation is based on what has been made public on MM's site and at MAX, the the stated focus of Blackstone appears to be feature set, I'd say that BD will be chasing CF7 much like they are over a year behind CF6.1. My commentary on the differences is in part related to the current frustration we all deal with in CSS implementation across browsers. It is true that BD has added some enhancements, but it also appears to be true that the don't support existing capabilities or consistently support certain functionality. How important that is will depend on each developer's needs, and code portability between the two different servers looks likely to become less simple as each company continues to go forward. Just as choosing between technologies such as J2EE, .NET and CFMX is a valid choice, so might be considering BD. However, as the two languages continue to grow apart, they will become more distinct. For better or worse, BD is not exactly CF. -Calvin -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Moretti (cfmaster) Date: 11/4/04 12:36 pm To: CF-Talk Subj: Re: Bluedragon Server Calvin Ward wrote: >While that may be true, it seems probable the the release of Blackstone >will further create a gap between actual CFMX and BD > > Of course, this is pure speculation. Speculating here myself, because I'm not on the beta test, but I would not be surprised if MM shortened BDs list of enhancement by adding that functionality to Blackstone and the list of "incompatibilities" didn't really increase that much. Plus how many people will actually upgrade to Blackstone? Yeah there will be the die-hards that go with every upgrade and the luck ones who will be handed Blackstone on a plate, but currently I'm still on CF5. Clients dictate upgrades. I personally can't justify the expense of upgrading to CFMX, as much as I'd like to, and most clients have no requirement for for some of the additional functionality provided by CFMX. Again, as much as I'd like to look into building apps with the likes of Mach-II, I can't justify upgrading to CFMX purely for this reason. I know someone who, until very recently, was still running cf4.5.2, because he had no requirement to upgrade and only upgraded recently, because he moved/upgraded his servers and felt that it was an appropriate time to upgrade CF too. At the end of the day, it comes down to your requirements and the requirements of your clients. Personally, I don't use BD. I have used BD in the past, back in the alpha testing days. It looked great and held a lot of promise back then, but wasn't production ready, so I had to go with MM CF. Since then I've, unfortunately, never had the requirement to look into using it. If and when the opportunity arises, then I will definately be looking at BD in detail as well as at MM CF Server. If it meets the requirements of the project that is paying for it and is cost effective, then I will go with it. What a developer should never do is chose not to use an alternate product, because it isn't the original. hmm... sorry that turned into a bit of a rant.... I'll go back to my dark corner now... regards Stephen PS. http://www.mxeurope.org/ - Registration is open!! The list of speakers and topics looks to be excellent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:183434 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=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
