Russ, I miss your nickname, "snake", being in your email address. Why did you remove it?
Phillip, in all honesty, I really like the HeliconTech platform and I think they've done a great job with it. One of the beauties of OSS is that different people and organizations can incorporate software in unique ways that can solve different problems creatively. However, I am compelled to point out that Snake's response is not unbiased. Snake and I do not currently get along very well. Maybe that can change later but right now that's how things are. The HeliconTech platform and the installers I helped put together are not competitors. They simply do things differently in order to address different use-cases. The HeliconTech platform installs a unique servlet container (Jetty) for each site it configures. This removes the need for a global configuration and the virtual directories Snake mentioned. This is also nice because it separates each servlet container instance and, should one of the instances die or become overwhelmed, it generally does not effect the other instances. However, it's memory usage is much less efficient then a single instance is. With a single instance, file caching, query caching, and other types of caching can be done server-wide, instead of on a per-instance basis. For example, compiled mura classes have to be compiled and cached multiple times with multiple servlet containers. This can increase unnecessary memory use considerably, depending on how you use it, but you do indeed obtain better application isolation out of it. You'd be sacrificing efficiency for isolation. It's give and take, and whether a platform is "better" or not purely depends on what's important to you and the job you're doing. The reality is that the HeliconTech platform and the installers I helped put together compliment each other. They serve different purposes and neither one is intrinsically "better" then the other. Hope this helps clarify things and best wishes to you as you explore your options. -Jordan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Michaels" <[email protected]> To: "cf-talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 10:14:33 AM Subject: Re: Rialo or Open Blue Dragon Viviotech's used to be the only installer, but there is now an alternative, which is easier/better if you are on windows/IIS and don't specifically want Tomcat , doesn't require any vhost config, or vDirs or isapi filters, just enable Railo on your site in IIS and that's it. plus has the advantage of isolating every site in its own java instance, which creates better stability and security, read more here http://www.michaels.me.uk/post.cfm/new-railo-and-mura-installer-for-the-microsoft-web-platform I am now using this on www.cfmldeveloper.com On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Railo 3.3/Tomcat 7 installers are available to download from here: > http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/download/ > > I won't be around this evening, I think, but it sounds like a > potentially interesting idea. I'm guessing you are talking about a way > wrapper that knows how to fetch and install custom tags? > > Judah > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Michael Stemle <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > So you have a link? I'm mobile at the moment. > > > > By the way, would anybody be up for a Skype call this evening (us > central time)? I had an idea I sent over the list a bit ago that I wanted > to bounce off f some other folks for creating an open source repository of > components similar to CPAN (search.cpan.org) for Perl. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:349344 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
