I'm not concerned about implementation details as a developer, I'm concerned about API and funcctionality. In this example, I believe the actcual CFMX cfsearch/cfcollection supports the search of pdfs and word documents, and the usage of additional languages other than english, ,whereas it appears BD does not support any of that. Additionally some of the search features apparently require a different syntax or return different results.
My observation is that it is unlikely that anyone chooses BD because of the variances that remove, reduce or alter functionality without improving the development process. Which doesn't mean that there aren't reasons to choose BD. You may be correct about the features in Blackstone, but that's as much speculation as I've been doing. None of which alters the current reality that there are significant differences between CFMX and BD, which folks considering moving from one to another should realize may make migration between the two challenging without sufficient planning, if considering writing an app that can be resold to be deployed on either. Or alternatively writing for one only. And there are more insididous differences as well. For example you can write <cfset "#variablename#" = "my value"><cfoutput>#variablename#</cfoutput> in CFMX, but it will error in BD. In effect, as with HTML/CSS, if you want to deploy on CFMX & BD, you will be limited to a subset of both feature sets (and the usable features set probably continues to diminish if you want to consider Railo and the other one-offs). - Calvin Jeffry Houser wrote: > BlueDragon has implemented cfcollection / cfsearch for a while (In their >initial 6.1 release?). The underlying engine is not Verity, though. It >uses one from the Apache project (I believe Lucene). It is not identical >to Verity, although from the point of CF code, it doesn't make much difference. > > I believe a lot of the features in Blackstone are merely "one layer of >abstraction" above issues that are relatively simple for a knowledgeable >Java programmer. If so, I suspect the New Atlanta folks will be able to >implement them very quickly. > >At 08:02 PM 11/4/2004, you wrote: > > >>Subject: Bluedragon Server >>From: Calvin Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: 04 Nov 2004 15:17:54 -0600 >>Thread: >>http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm/method=messages&threadid=36359&forumid=4#183417 >> >>I don't think that's entirely accurate. For example, isn't one of those >>differences is lack of support for some features in cfcollection/cfsearch? >> >> >>-Calvin >> >> > > > >-- >Jeffry Houser, Web Developer, Writer, Songwriter, Recording Engineer >AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 >-- >My Books: <http://www.instantcoldfusion.com> >My Recording Studio: <http://www.fcfstudios.com> >My Energetic Acoustic Rock Band: <http://www.farcryfly.com> >-- >When did Reality Become TV > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:183454 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
