On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Matthew Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Right... I'm thinking back to the release of 8 (or 8.01) with an early > version of JVM 6. This JVM had known issues with classes and such with > CFC and memory scope intensive apps.
Functionally, the supported JVM worked just fine and had undergone Adobe's full test suite process. Yes, that JVM had a class loading bug that caused performance problems for a certain class of CFML applications (frankly, a small percentage of real-world apps) but it caused the same problems for non-CFML apps too in some situations. For the vast majority of CFers, CF8/8.01 on that supported JVM was just fine. > Did Adobe every officially support > _10 or so that fixed that? No, but please don't underestimate the resources needed to fully QA a new combination of system components. Adobe (and Macromedia before them) have long provided instructions on how to upgrade the JVM for ColdFusion but it's always been clear that only a few combinations are officially supported. That makes perfect sense from a business p.o.v., especially when *most* CFers were not running into the class loading performance bug. > In addition, security fixes do eventually > come down the pipe, and it'd be nice if instead of just trying XX > release of the JVM, that Adobe could say "yep, we only support _xx, > you'll be fine to move to that". And I'm sure if a critical security fix for the JVM appeared, Adobe would treat it like any other critical security issue around ColdFusion and issue a Hot Fix (as they just did this week). Considering there are CFers out there who view their applications as too "mission critical" to upgrade ColdFusion under the hood, I'm surprised people aren't a bit more sympathetic to the same issue when it's on the other side of the fence. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:333663 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
