The answer is YES! Since the release of CFMX 6.1 we have been 100% in the Java world; from 6.1 Enterprise on CFMX is a fully-fledged J2EE (now known as Java EE) application. In the process of that move lots of good things happened to us as CF-ers. Most of what gets blogged and talked [...]

Most of the work we are doing at present revolves around ColdFusion’’s Engine Room, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM or JRE). This involves lot’’s of load testing and in particular load testing different frameworks, FuseBox, mach-ii etc; when I get some breathing space I”ll publish some of our findings. Whilst looking around for some information [...]

Controlling how long ColdFusion requests/threads will run is one of the more confusing topics in configuring and maintaining ColdFusion applications. We”ve treated this topic before here in our blog, and we see it constantly in our consulting practice. Given that it’’s so important, and also so hard to find really good information on it, we”re [...]

During a recent exercise in digging into the Sun and IBM JVM’’s and the arguments that can be passed to them, typically either in the jvm.config file or in start scripts, we found some really useful examples of accessing COM. MS Exchange and .NET to and from Java. We encountered these examples on the [...]

As many people know by now, we run a live demo of our SeeFusion product under a constant load, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week (SeeFusion Live Demo). Occasionally, we have to pause the test, typically for software updates to ColdFusion, the load test software (Paessler Webserver Stress Tool), or perhaps even to [...]

I thought this was an interesting news item, as ColdFusion was very heavily used by Toysrus at one time and it was during the time I was working as a CF-Spectra consultant with Allaire. If my memory servers ;o) me well it was also just before Toysrus made their agreement with Amazon back in [...]