On 8/26/07, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Overall I like the speed of the product, and the price:-)
Yes, Railo has some nice features and is certainly very, very fast. It does a better job of supporting frameworks than BlueDragon from what I can tell although, like BlueDragon, it does not support Transfer ORM which is a deal-breaker for me since I use that framework on all of my projects. I can imagine hosting companies liking Railo because they can buy enterprise and then give everyone their own administrator (and most decent hosting companies buy ColdFusion Enterprise already for shared hosting so cost isn't really an issue there). I particularly like the ability to change the engine's behavior for things like "this" scope and get/set methods and Application.cfc on a "per-web" basis. I also like the ability to compile and "trust" individual archives (so you can essentially have trusted cache for your Mach II / ColdSpring framework files but not your own code - great for improving performance during development or even for easing deployment). And then there are "resources" which are file-like mappings to FTP and other protocols. You define the mapping in the admin and then you can manipulate the external entity with <cffile> and <cfinclude> etc, just as if it's a local file system entity. It's very powerful. That said, there's stuff in ColdFusion 8 that I just can't do without (Transfer ORM support, event gateways, step debugger, server monitor etc etc). -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:287153 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
