@Mark: Thanks for letting us know where you stand - it's great to hear that Transfer won't be neglected. You've done a brilliant job in developing such a useful product. All the best for the future!
Cheers Matthew On Jul 28, 7:31 am, Mark Mandel <[email protected]> wrote: > James, Thanks for bringing this up. > > Hibernate is a *crazy* good product, and is miles above and beyond > Transfer's capabilities. In my opinion, the implementation in CF9 has been > done *exceedingly* well. The only detractor being that your are tied to a > single datasource (which I'm sure people will work out a way around at some > point). If you want the power of CFORM, with the cache similar to what > Transfer has, it is very simple to plug caching (integrated or > distributed)into the CF9 ORM implementation. Long > term, I fully expect the usage of other CFML ORM's such as Transfer will > diminish. > > My own personal work has lead into more Java/CF integration (with some > announcements on that in the future), using Hibernate directly with Java and > CF9 ORM will start to become a large component of that. I'll work on pieces > of Transfer, as I still have a very strong interest in persistence > frameworks, but I also want to follow my interests and the evolution of the > platform. > > I know many of you have a large investment in Transfer. The last thing I > want is to leave Transfer as an orphaned product. Starting today, I am > taking an initial round of volunteers to help guide and direct Transfer as > an OSS product. Transfer has a large and vibrant following and I certainly > want to make sure that Transfer continues to be a well supported OSS project > and is able to power ColdFusion applications for a long while to come. If > you are interested in working on Transfer, email me at [email protected] > > Finally, I just want to say I am exceedingly proud of Transfer and the > Transfer community. Going back to 2005 when the project first started, > there is no possible way I could have foreseen where Transfer would have > gone, or the group of incredibly smart people that became part of the > community around it. > > I'll admit, the CF9 ORM integration was a bit of a blow emotionally, however > I think it will be a huge boon for the ColdFusion community as a whole. The > work of Adobe's engineers is astounding and the continual evolution of the > ColdFusion platform is something I strongly want to be a part of, regardless > of any blow to my ego. > > Regards, > > Mark > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:03 PM, James Allen > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Hi Mark, > > > You seem very impressed by the CF9 Hibernate integration (it does look > > great) but I was wondering how this impacts on your plans for Transfer if at > > all? > > > Are you still fully focused on taking Transfer onward and upward? > > > --- > > > James Allen > > > E: [email protected] > > > Blog:http://jamesallen.name > > > Twitter: @CFJamesAllen (Coldfusion / Web development) > > > Twitter: @jamesallenuk (General) > > -- > E: [email protected] > T:http://www.twitter.com/neurotic > W:www.compoundtheory.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Before posting questions to the group please read: http://groups.google.com/group/transfer-dev/web/how-to-ask-support-questions-on-transfer You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "transfer-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/transfer-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
