Now includes ModelGlue…We cannot emphasize enough that Web applications should never be deployed to Production until they have been load tested, thoroughly. Recently we carried out some fairly extensive load-tests in our Downey, CA lab. We spend a lot of our time helping clients to set up a functional QA-Staging-Testing environment and the infrastructure to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Greetings, all. We”ve been using a simple home-grown utility for parsing JRun/ColdFusion stack traces for some time now, and since so many of our consulting customers have asked us for such a tool, it occurred to us that the broader community might find it useful as well. You can upload a stack trace file (text [...]

As we have mentioned before, Webapper was formed by some of the former ColdFusion-JRun-Spectra consulting team at Allaire-Macromedia. We spent much of our time on-site with clients helping to improve performance or fix applications. Most of the time the problems turned out to be coding related and we used various tools to identify [...]

I blogged a couple of weeks ago about a Java service called "RMI". In a default install with no argument modifiers, RMI will cause Full Garbage collections every 60 seconds and this is not good. During a Full GC the server instance is unavailable to do anything else, no requests will be serviced. [...]

Greetings, everyone. Firstly, on behalf of the team here at Webapper, a Happy New Year to all. As we kick off the new year, we”re happy to be announcing the release of SeeFusion 3.1. Even though it’’s a “dot release”, there are a couple of nifty new features that we hope you”ll find useful. Here is [...]

Many of us are aware that there is a memory use limitation for the Java Virtual machine on Windows operating systems. This is noted and mentioned in many blog articles and I had been looking for a more expanded explanation and possible respite from this issue. This is particularly interesting when we take [...]

I spend around 70% of my time on the road helping clients with both JRun and ColdFusion environment and application issues. Recently I hit an issue I have not directly observed before and I think it worth sharing to help others. RMI (remote method invocation) is a Java facility, explained here in this post on [...]