nitish pandey wrote:
1.What is the technique for building these tags and the process?
If you know Java, and you know what you want, jump in. Download the
source from SVN, put it in Eclipse and away you go.
2.It's perfectly okay if we are not doing tag for tag race with ACF,
but do we have a check list that lists out all the tags and a check
box that signifies availability in ACF and another for openBD? That
would help when i am coding.
We use to maintain such a list, but to be honest, there isn't a huge
need for it. If you go to a tag that is not there the engine will soon
alert you to it. The best source for that functions/tags we have is:
http://openbd.org/manual/
3. What are the speed implications of using openBD vs jee on
jetty/tomcat? Need a authoritative blog on that. There are a lot of
misgivings regarding ACF/openBD being right for high performance
sites. Is that correct?
Not quite what you mean by your first part of the statement. OpenBD
can't run by itself, it requires a J2E container underneath to run it,
be it Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere etc.
"lot of misgivings" ... i would be careful with such sweep statements
like that my friend. I think you are referring to CFML as a language
having a very outdated perception of being not very fast. Like i said,
it is extremely outdated. OpenBD particularly excels in very large
volume sites; we have a very low memory footprint which makes us scale
extremely well compared to others. Remember, back when MySpace was a
contender in the social network space, it was not only CFML, but
BlueDragon too!
These days this has become a bit of a moot talking point. It is more
about the development environment and flexibility of the language that
takes center stage now. No one chooses PHP for its high performance
(facebook had to re-write its engine to perform for them). They choose
it because its free, available, free, good documentation, looks of
books, oh did i say it was free?
CFML has only been truly free in the last 3years, with OpenBD being the
first out of the gate. It is a decision, upon reflection, I regret not
making 10 years ago. Oh hum.
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