I agree with the premise of your "devil's advocacy", Peter. Don just noted that the OpenBD version seems cleaner, and I my purely anecdotal research leads me to believe that it's slightly faster too. Judging from some errors I've seen, ColdFusion SOAP looks to be built on Apache Axis (http://ws.apache.org/axis/), although I'll grant that I have no idea whether or not the Macro-dobie folks made some extension to it when they first hooked it up years ago.
But the core premise remains; people will take their legacy code that they wrote in ColdFusion 6, 7 or 8, place it in an OpenBD environment, and expect that it would work fundamentally the same. If it doesn't, there would be some explanation as to why it's different or even needed (as is the case with some conversations on cfsetting requestTimeout) and/or an extra attribute to cause it to work the same (as in the case of cfdump). If there's neither, nor a workaround, then folks should be able to learn this - perhaps as a part of some pre-installation discovery. That's all. Please understand, I'm not necessarily screaming "fix it, fix it!". I've just been trying to discover why it is so (as you postulate, perhaps it works so much better for X, Y and Z platforms instead), was it intended, and if appropriate, what could be done - with the lowest impact to our mutual heroes - to make it compatible with legacy CFML. Again, my apologies if I came off as impatient for these answers on a "weekend scale". This has been affecting my progress since January, and I did a poor job of explaining that. Alan K. Holden --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
