Adam, That's terrific news if Vince succeeds. Pete Freitag just posted to his blog this morning about his attempts to get it working.
http://www.petefreitag.com/item/697.cfm I think now it's just a question of when. Rick On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Adam Haskell <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://groups.google.com/group/openbd/browse_thread/thread/a9da36320b64d5d6 > > :-D > > That being said it's worth mentioning that without large amounts of > re-engineering Railo and ColdFusion will have a harder time running in the > AppEngine mostly due to how they compile CFML. > > > Adam > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Brad Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > From: "Barney Boisvert" <[email protected]> > > > Out of the box, I doubt any of the CFML engines follow the AppEngine > > > rules, > > > > While I think it would be cool to run CFML on Google's App engine, I > think > > one of the major hurdles would be files system access. Log files, temp > > directories, and even cached class files would all have to be refactored. > > And according to the docs, any running program wouldn't even be allowed > to > > open a socket connection. > > > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html > > "For instance, bytecode that attempts to open a socket or write to a file > > will throw a runtime exception" > > > > I think you'd have to use all of Google's APIs to do all that stuff. > > CFMAIL > > would be out in favor of the JavaMail API. Seems like a lot of that > would > > be a step backwards from the basic stuff ColdFusion already does for us. > > Either way, unless Adobe REALLY wanted to rearrange CF to fit that mold, > I > > think an open source project like Railo or OpenBD would have to take up > the > > mantle of making a CFML engine that followed the Googles App sandbox > rules. > > > > ~Brad > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:321553 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
