Hi Jacob, well the difference is, that we use the same resources. We separate the Webs logically. And from my own experience I know how much ressources are consumed when creating a new instance. With Railo comes a server administrator that allows you to configure each security settings per web separately. Lets assume you have 5 webs called A-E. With the enterprise version of Railo you can use the server administrator to set up global settings for all webs from A-D and special settings for web E. A developer of web B can use his local railo web administrator to set up the settings he needs for his development. He does not have access to the server administrator, only to his local web administrator. With MX you only have one global administrator. And all datasources defined in this administrator are known to every web running with this instance. In order to use datasources in a secure way you should only define them with a readonly databaseuser and use the "password" and "username" attributes in the cfquery-tag. But if you don't do it this way and a user from another web within this instance knows a certain datasource, he can use it as he likes. The same goes for Customtags, CFX a.s.o. Now you are right when saying that it is possible to define several instances with the enterprise version of MX, but it is very resource consuming. I must admit, that Railo has a disadvantage in this comparison, since if the web A causes for some reasons to crash, all other webs won't run anymore too.
Hope this explains the difference I meant. Best regards Gert Franz Railo Core Development > > From: Gert Franz > > > > why don't you give Railo a try. Railo is nearly fully > > compatible with MX 6.1 and has some features neither of the > > two other products has. One of these is separating different > > webs into different coldfusion-contexts. This means, that you > > have two administrators for two different webs on the same > > server. So you can separate datasources, mappings, customtags > > and everything else. > > How is this different from ColdFusion's server instances? Here is a > quote from livedocs: "When you create a server instance with the > Instance Manager, by default it deploys a copy of the cfusion > server's > ColdFusion enterprise application, including data sources, mappings, > and > settings. Alternatively, you can create a new server instance and > specify the location of an EAR or WAR file (created by the J2EE > Archive > page), which the Instance Manager uses as the basis for your new > ColdFusion server instance." > > By the way, I am applauding your efforts with Railo. Here's my blog > entry on the subject: > http://www.techfeed.net/blog/index.cfm/2006/1/18/Another-CFML-server ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230076 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
