But to get back to your original question, if someone for some reason did NOT want to do an update, yes, you could call upon better encryption functions than those includes in CF 6, by calling on them in the underlying Java JVM (or whatever library the encryption functions live in). Someone may know the specifics. I don't (or it could be found pretty easily). You just would then call the needed java objects from within CFML using createobject or CFObject. The CF docs talk about how to call Java objects.
And since CF 7 and 6 both deployed on Java 1.4, you should be able to call in 6 whatever is called in 7. Then again, if it's based on something in the JVM, I'll note that the point release within 1.4 was a couple releases newer in 7, so you might have to upgrade to that equivalent 1.4 JVM on 6. If it's just a library, you'd just need to find what 7 relied upon, or you may find some other you were happy with. But as has been said, the easiest thing certainly would just be to update to 7, or even better, 8. Hope that's helpful. /charlie From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Howard Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 3:37 PM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] antiquated question about upgrade from 6.1 to 7 I don't think it was a matter of them buying new. Like I said, I am a sub on a project and the actual contractor I believe already pushed them to 7 and is installing. Thanks though. I know that I had some issues jumping from 7 to 8 on a couple applications and didn't want to have their application start blowing up when they want this thing live pretty much now. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:16 PM, John Mason <ma...@fusionlink.com> wrote: No major issues with upgrading. In fact they should see some performance gains. If they have their buying the software new, I would go ahead and jump them up to 8. John ma...@fusionlink.com Jeff Howard wrote: I'm doing some work for a client that he was wanting done this afternoon for a client of his (got to love the middleman). In any case, I just found out that the version of CF they're using is 6.1 and I need to use the Encrypt and BinaryDecode functions of 7. Anyone have a good work around for this or know of any major issues from upgrading from 6 to 7? They only have one application running on this server and are willing to do the upgrade but I don't want to tell them to do it and then have all sorts of issues arise. ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform <http://www.acfug.org/?fa=login.edituserform> For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com <http://www.fusionlink.com/> ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
