Note that that is ColdFusion, not CFML. I'm still onboard with CFML, and that's not likely to change in the mid-term. Today I switched all my hosted code from ColdFusion to Railo. So now my only connection to the Adobe product is my day job.
I have a few bits and pieces of code hosted with CFMLDeveloper, which is a bloody good CFML hosting service, and is for free for non-production code.
Russ really knows his stuff when it comes to CFML hosting. A good case in point is that to switch my hosted environment from ColdFusion to Railo, all I had to do is to update my web.config file (it's simply a copy and paste from a FAQ page), and my CFML environment was instantly running Railo instead of ColdFusion. That's pretty impressive.
There were a few code incompatibilities I needed to fix:
- I had a method which took an argument
url, which conflicted with the URL scope. - Railo's CFScriptable
<cffeed>equivalent has different syntax to ColdFusion's. - In some places I was using the full path to the ColdFusion CFCs, eg:
com.adobe.coldfusion.Http, which obviously isn't valid on Railo. - I was having problems with
<cfcache>in Railo, so I cached some stuff by hand. I have not yet got to the bottom of this (quick update: this seems to be a bug: RAILO-3016).
Now I can leverage all the excellent improved language constructs in Railo that ColdFusion doesn't have yet. Plus my code runs faster. Plus because of the way Railo works, having a separate Server Admin and Web Admin, I even have access to the admin UI for configuring my Railo "instance".
Railo is - all round - just a better experience for me.
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Adam
