Download the SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.2, a Type 4 JDBC driver that provides database connectivity through the standard JDBC application program interfaces (APIs) available in J2EE (Java2 Enterprise Edition).
This release of the JDBC Driver is JDBC 3.0 compliant and runs on the Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.4 and higher. It has been tested against all major application servers including BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, and Sun. Read more – ‘Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.2’.
Following a conversation with a friend regarding how ColdFusion handles arrays and structures in 'the background', I was interested to find out what Java classes each were mapped to. This was a relatively simple case of using the functions getClass(), getSuperClass() and getName() to parse out the name of the Java classes. Read more – ‘The Java Behind a ColdFusion Array and Structure’.
Array and Structures are considered to be complex data types in ColdFusion. In contrast, simple data types are ones that contain a single piece of data, such as an Integer, String, or Boolean value. A complex data type can contain multiple pieces of data, which, in the case of arrays, are usually related. All the data are referenced under a single variable name. You can think of a complex variable as a variable that contains a collection of other variables inside it. An array maps Integers to arbitrarily typed objects (Integers, Strings, Booleans and Objects) while a structure, or associative array, maps arbitrarily typed objects to arbitrarily typed objects. Read more – ‘The Inner Workings of a ColdFusion Array and Structure’.
New Atlanta is announcing today, at CFUnited Europe - a ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) technology conference in London, U.K.- that they will be creating and distributing a free open-source Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) version of BlueDragon, their ColdFusion-compatible web application server. Read more – ‘New Atlanta Open-Sources BlueDragon’.
Killing ColdFusion is something I love to do!! This time I managed to kill ColdFusion by amending the Class Paths listed in the Java and JVM settings of my local instance of ColdFusion MX 7. When you amend any Java and JVM settings you need to restart the ColdFusion service and hope. Read more – ‘Repairing a Corrupt ColdFusion JVM Config’.
The world’s premier independent, vendor-neutral print resource for the ever-expanding international community of Internet technology professionals using the Java programming language and the Java development platform, has just completed volume 11. Read more – ‘Java Developer's Journal 2006’.
One of the many reasons to use ColdFusion MX is that it has a large, standard toolset that enbales the creation of full-featured, dynamic Web applications. The tag-based language makes it relatively simple to query a relational database and send e-mail. In a similar way, you can create and search Verity full-text indexes. Read more – ‘ColdFusion & Lucene’.
For many ColdFusion developers, server setup, tuning, troubleshooting and configuration is one of the least understood areas of ColdFusion. Achieving the highest possible performance and scalability with a ColdFusion MX application is a complex combination of many different factors. Standard performance tuning guidelines in conjunction with the tips provided below should allow you to achieve maximum application performance and scalability. Performance refers to the response time of requests to CFML pages and Components (CFCs), whilst scalability refers to how the performance results change when the load on the server increases. Read more – ‘Coldfusion MX Tuning’.
CFML is the name of the scripting language used by ColdFusion and several alternative server environments. It stands for ColdFusion Markup Language and is similar to HTML in appearance in that it uses tags. CFML is the code that powers ColdFusion, a program available from Adobe (formerly Macromedia), as well as such engines as BlueDragon, IgniteFusion, Railo, Coral Web Builder, and other web development platforms. Read more – ‘ColdFusion (CFML) Engines’.
