James, Yep, that's a rough one. I can tell you that the engineering team did not just write it off, they agonized over this one. This was not "swept under the carpet" at all, it was a tough decision, and while you use the feature most CFers in fact don't, something had to give. I'll forward your message to the decision makers, but don't expect this to change when CFMX is initially released.
--- Ben -----Original Message----- From: James Sleeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:56 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Am I the only one who uses CONNECTSTRING ? (MX rant) Ok, now the NDA is moot I can ask the wider community. One of the best features IMHO in CF5 was the introduction of CONNECTSTRING to enable us to have dynamic datasources, that is, DSN-less connections. Since CF5 came out I have used these almost exclusively, infact I have been able to write applications that simply would not have been possible without it. But with the introduction of CF MX the CONNECTSTRING is now no more, at least in the initial release. This means we say goodbye to dynamic datasources and it's back to having to have every database set up individually by the CF administrator. This, in my opinion is a major step back, surely the purpose of a new release is to add features not take them away. The reason for losing the functionality appears to be to do with JDBC, and while it is possible to work around, Macromedia has basically said they don't have time to do it now so it's easier to sweep under the carpet and perhaps catch it next time - whenever that may be. This single issue is certainly going to stop me from using MX with any of my existing applications - the changes necessary would be widespread, and in some cases impossible. Indeed, for new applications I will have to evaluate thier needs carefully to determine if I can use MX or not. This is going to cause shared hosting providors to not be able to upgrade thier existing servers, at least not without imposing on thier clients to a great degree, it's also going to increase thier work load because now they must set up each and every database (can you imagine if 500 clients ask to have thier previously dynamic datasources set up all at once !). But, only a couple of people in the beta group aside form myself seem to be at all concerned about this. Am I the only one who uses CONNECTSTRING ? Surely it is such a useful feature that we can't release MX without it ? Surely it's worth working on for a little longer to get this functional ? Well, just had to get that off my chest, I'll go back to work now :-) --- James Sleeman ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
