Precompilation for ColdFusion for Solaris (SPARC) and WebSphere

2009-11-07 Thread Joseph Bugeja
I am in the process of installing a ColdFusion application on Solaris 10 64-bit (Sparc) running with WebSphere 6.1. The cfcompile script makes a reference to jrun.jar however this is not available when CF is installed as an ear file that is to be deployed on WAS. An abstract of cfcompile.sh is

Problem with onblur event

2009-08-26 Thread Joseph Bugeja
We have a complicated parser that produces html from a meta format. Now, we are having a problem in that eventhandlers (like onClick) are not being triggered when the focus is on a field which has the onBlur eventhandler set. We could solve the problem if JS is multi-threaded or if there a way

Re: Problem with onblur event

2009-08-26 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Peter, Thanks a lot! Your solution is excellent. For the time being we will replace the onclick event with the onmousedown...Writing cross-browser independent code proves to be very challenging. Regarding jQuery. Yes, I definitely agree with you. Currently we are evaluating and comparing

Penetration Testing Tools

2009-07-30 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Hello Friends, I am in the process of doing penetration testing on a Web Site that runs solely on IE (Internet Explorer). We need to identity problems such as XSS, Injections, Insecure Direct Object References, etc. Do you recommend or suggest any good tool, ideally a free or open-source

Re: Good Release Management Software

2009-03-03 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Hi Mike, Absolutely, that is exactly what I intended. Yes, I need to find software that automatically identifies what is different between the current release (residing on the client) and the current/new release (which we will give to clients). A good installer/release mgt software would

Re: Good Release Management Software

2009-03-02 Thread Joseph Bugeja
. The methods you use to test and approve code before deployment would also impact how your software releases are handled, as would the way you implement database changes. -Mike Chabot On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Joseph Bugeja jbug...@rs2group.com wrote: Do you recommend any good

Good Release Management Software

2009-02-28 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Do you recommend any good release management software, ideally an open source solution that we can use to automate releases of our software? ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to

Re: Clustering with Synchronization/Mirroring

2009-02-20 Thread Joseph Bugeja
-point sync (a - b, b - a) and can do partial file changes as well. This also requires that the machines be part of an active directory domain. Matthew Williams Geodesic GraFX Joseph Bugeja wrote: ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8

Obscuring the source code with pre-compilation

2009-02-20 Thread Joseph Bugeja
We are using cfcompile.bat to pre-compile the code of our application. In this way when our application goes to the client the source code is not easily viewable/reversible. However, when we pre-compile the code on Windows and then FTP it to an AIX machine with WebSphere the system does not

High-Availability Requirements

2009-02-20 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Hi, Usually we use CF8 Ent/JRun4/IIS combination for SMEs but for large organizations with high-availability demands do you think this combination still holds or we should invest in an alternative WS or App. Server? Thanks in advance as always for your excellent assistance.

Clustering with Synchronization/Mirroring

2009-02-18 Thread Joseph Bugeja
We have a setup consisting of 2 CF8 servers running in parallel (the 2 instances are clustered together using CF8 Ent/JRun4) and we have one app. deployed on each of the two servers. Each request is served by either one of the 2 servers. Although clustering is working great, we would like

Enabling SSL for CF-Site

2008-12-01 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Hello Experts, This is more of a curiosity rather than a technical problem. We have a CF powered site hosted under IIS/JRun server on Win 2K 64-bit. This site works brilliantly, but now we need to make it available on SSL. From an application perspective, do you forsee any changes or it is

Code Synchronization - Synchronize code on 2 different machines

2008-11-14 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Hi Guys, We are running two ColdFusion 8 machines in parallel to run our system. ColdFusion 8 round-robin clustering technique is used for high-availability. We would like to know if you have any suggestions or ideas on how we can synchronize the code on the different machines so that if I do

ColdFusion 8 Ent/JRun and IIS as external web server

2008-10-03 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Hello Experts, We are using ColdFusion 8 Enterprise/64-bit with its built-in JRun4 application server. Our clients would like to install IIS on a separate machine located in another segment in a DMZ. Our question is, can the JRun connector automatically discover ColdFusion instances if they

Re: Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-23 Thread Joseph Bugeja
). In this was ColdFusion/Java created the file exactly as expected. Kind Regards, Joseph. Joseph Bugeja wrote: characters using the CHR function. This is a bit strange. Can you identify why? your editor, whatever that is. So what I am saying is that I must explicitly set the cfprocessingdirective you

Re: Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
is stored in the file as Æ Could this be related to the default Java encoding which is Cp1252, and the default locale of en_US. The ColdFusion version used is 8,0,0,176276. Joseph. Joseph Bugeja wrote: cffile action=write file=testfile.txt output=#chr(198)# and ? charset=utf-8 just to confirm

Re: Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
in the file as Æ Could this be related to the default Java encoding which is Cp1252, and the default locale of en_US. The ColdFusion version used is 8,0,0, 176276. Joseph. Joseph Bugeja wrote: cffile action=write file=testfile.txt output=#chr(198)# and ? charset=utf-8 just

Re: Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
with this problem but instead we use CHR function to store these strings. Joseph. Joseph Bugeja wrote: Could this be related to the default Java encoding which is Cp1252, and the default locale of en_US. The ColdFusion version used is 8,0,0,176276. no, cf is in it's own little world--actually we

Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-20 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Hi Guys, We are using ColdFusion 8 with the built-in Java 1.6. When trying to write a string that contains UTF-8 characters to a file, these characters are becoming stored incorrectly in the file. A sample call issued is the following: cffile action=write file=testfile.txt output=#chr(198)#

DataSource Events like Before Commit?

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Dear ColdFusion Users, Is there a way that I can attach to a datasource through an event like before_commit or before_update? So, if I have a cfquery tag, and I would ColdFusion to automatically, before ColdFusion executes the code found in the cfquery I would like it to automatically execute

Re: DataSource Events like Before Commit?

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Thanks for your reply. Let me explain our scenario. We have a number of cfquery tags that insert, update and delete data from our Oracle database. Basically, before each query is run I need to execute a stored procedure. This stored procedure sets the userid (the user currently logged in) in

Re: DataSource Events like Before Commit?

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Thanks again for your reply. Unfortunately, I need to pass the userid prior to executing each query as otherwise the auditing function would not know the userid. We have triggers on tables but triggers need the read the userid apriori. ColdFusion does not allow us to build our connection

Re: DataSource Events like Before Commit?

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Exactly! You perfectly understood my concern. If ColdFusion supported dynamic connection parameter injection or proxy authentication then we can identify the connection pool users but there is no straightforward solution to this. Through pooling we are connected through one db user which for

Re: DataSource Events like Before Commit?

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Dave, That's exactly what I was looking for - proxy authentication. I created a thread on this forum about this but the reply I got is that ColdFusion does not natively support this. So, the solution is to either create our own JNDI datasource using Java. However, I decided to not go this way

Re: DataSource Events like Before Commit?

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Yes, I'll work on something like that but it requires heavy testing to make sure that the solution is correct. Pooling is quite a difficult topic and not very much documented topic (I could not find a document that explains how the ColdFusion driver is communicating with Oracle - like what if

Integrating ColdFusion with Tuxedo

2008-06-17 Thread Joseph Bugeja
forsee any difficulties or challenges that we might encounter in integrating ColdFusion with this platform. Your help and experience is really appreciated. Sincerely, Joseph Bugeja. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most

Integrating ColdFusion with Tuxedo

2008-06-17 Thread Joseph Bugeja
foresee any difficulties or challenges that we might encounter in integrating ColdFusion with this platform. Your help and experience is really appreciated. Sincerely, Joseph Bugeja. ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8

RE: Proxy Authentication with Oracle - Does ColdFusion Support th is?

2008-04-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
In reality, connection pooling with proxy authentication should automatically create a second session, a lightweight session, with the actual user id and password. Naturally, the dba must grant the proxy user connect rights on the database for this to work. I did not investigate but I think, as

RE: Proxy Authentication with Oracle - Does ColdFusion Support th is?

2008-04-21 Thread Joseph Bugeja
User Id=scott;Proxy Password=tiger; ; OR Client Identifier using C#/Oracle: conn.ClientId = SomeUser; Is there a similar method in ColdFusion? Thanks Regards, Joseph. -Original Message- From: Joseph Bugeja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:35 PM

Re: Proxy Authentication with Oracle - Does ColdFusion Support th is?

2008-04-19 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Hi Dave, Thanks for your immediate reply. This is a bit problematic. I think there are workarounds to this but do you happen to know how this problem can be dealt with? Speaking from a security perspective, we need to find a way to identify the users that are actually connected to the

Re: ColdFusion and IIS as an external Web Server - Is JRun requir ed o n both machines?

2008-04-19 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Thanks for this info. I was a bit confused because when I install ColdFusion as an EAR file and I examine its content I can still find jrun.xml and thus I thought that we still JRun. Regards, Joseph. if we install ColdFusion on another application server, like WebSphere, then do we still

Proxy Authentication with Oracle - Does ColdFusion Support this?

2008-04-18 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Dear CF-Users, In order to have proper auditing and for other benefits like identity preservation we cannot just make use of a single username/password as is traditionally required for connection pooling. There is more than one way to handle this, but a common method that can be used to avoid

ColdFusion and IIS as an external Web Server - Is JRun required o n both machines?

2008-04-18 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Dear CF-Users, We are using ColdFusion 8 Enterprise Edition and we want to check if it is possible to separate the ColdFusion application server from the IIS Web Server. In our scenario, we have two separate machines - one dedicated for ColdFusion and the other dedicated to the Web Server. The

RE: ColdFusion and IIS as an external Web Server - Is JRun requir ed o n both machines?

2008-04-18 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Hello Sir, Thanks for your reply. I agree with you on the mirroring and the website importing option. I think this is the way to go. I went through that kb article a couple of days ago however it assumes that the Coldfusion and the WebServer are located on the same machine, and this is not our