> > it's not very likely that you'll be seeing CF Server 5.0, which is a
> > complete rewrite,
>
> That's the first I've heard anyone mention that 5.0 would be
> a "complete rewrite". Wasn't 4.5 a complete rewrite? How often
> do they need to start from scratch? That's genuinely sobering
> news if it's true and considring all of bugs introduced in 4.5.
Check out the Allaire site for information on "Pharoah", which is the
codename for the 5.0 release. It's going to be a Java servlet engine (using
the JRun product as a starting point) which can execute CFML scripts in a
way similar to JSP scripts - they're actually compiled into servlets before
execution. It's been discussed a decent amount here on the list, actually.
There's a lot of good stuff that could happen out of this, if it's executed
correctly. One thing that you do when developing enterprise ASP applications
is that you typically move complex logic into middle-tier components, and
host those components in MTS, which provides very good performance for that
logic. You can use MTS-hosted components in CF as well, but then you're tied
into using IIS, because MTS essentially comes with IIS. With CF 5, you'll be
able to build a pure CF-based analogue to this structure, using Enterprise
Java Beans running in-process within the CF server. Also, we should be able
to do things like use shared-memory session variables, allowing the use of
session variables within a fully load-balanced environment - something you
can't do in CF now, but can with Java application servers.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
voice: (202) 797-5496
fax: (202) 797-5444
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