Too bad, BD and Railo most likely won't work for my app since it uses some fancy and nice cf8 features like cfajax tags, last heard (several months ago), and don't know the status of the cf open source initiative. Thanks.
> You were not wrong. You only need to run the installer once to get the > cfusion war file. Adobe distributes that as part of the CF installer. > In the alternatives, such as Open BlueDragon and Railo, you can just > download the war file. > > For cf you download the installer, and select the J2EE/WAR > installation. Then after the install process is finished, go to the > install directory and grab the cfusion.war file. You only need to do > this once. You can reuse this file multiple times. Just unarchive the > file, drop your cfm files in it and then re-war the folder. Then just > drop it into the deploy directory of your /[jboss install > dir]/server/default/ installation. Then on the next JBoss deployment > lifecycle it will automatically (automagically) deploy your app. > > Its a real pity that Adobe doesn't just allow for a war file download > rather than having to go through the fill installer. It would make > things a lot simpler. > > regards, > larry > > > > Thanks. I think I missed an important part of cf installation, I > was > > under the impression that under a J2EE server one doesn't need a cf > > > installer package, it looks like I was wrong. > > > > > Why create an Ear file? Its simpler and in my mind to use a War > > > archive. That is unless you're using J2EE specific java beans etc. > > > > With a War deployment I've found there are less configuration > issues. > > > > > > > > Just decompress the cfusion.war file, drop in your .cfm files. > > > recompress them and drop it into the deploy directory. Its that > > simple. > > > JBoss on the next life cycle picks up the change and deploys it. > > > > > > What's more you can use an exploded war file. Steven Brownlee has > a > > > > > great tutorial about it. See http://tinyurl.com/cf-and-Jboss > > > > > > hth, > > > > > > larry > > > > > > > > > >On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:22 PM, D > > > >> Has anyone done that? Jboss seems a promising one, is > > > configuration messy? > > > > > > > >Why would you think that JBoss is simpler then JRun? > > > > > > > >Anyway, once you have all of your JBoss running, just create an > > EAR > > > >file from the CF installer and drop that in the deploy folder of > > > >JBoss. Wait a few minutes and your server is ready to go. > > > > > > > > > > > >> how does its JDBC driver work easily with setting up a > > datasource? > > > > > > > >Datasources are still set up in CF. > > > > > > > > > > > >> And the Apache Geronimo seems interesting as well... > > > > > > > >? > > > > > > > > > > > >> Also, my objective is programmatic configuration for all. > > > > > > > >That is no different then CF on JRun, I didn't have to change my > > > > scripts at all. > > > > > > > >Jochem > > > > > > > >-- > > > >Jochem van Dieten > > > >http://jochem.vandieten. net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321537 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
