Sean Corfield's thoughts on Adobe technologies, software design and application frameworks. http://corfield.org Vince Bonfanti hosted a Birds of a Feather session this evening where he officially unveiled the <a href="http://openbluedragon.org/">Open BlueDragon project</a>. [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Open_BlueDragon_at_cfObjective seancorfield 2008-05-03T23:31:00-05:00 oss openbd j2ee coldfusion cfobjective bluedragon The latest software update for Mac OS X 10.5.2 adds Java 1.6.0_05 but does not change your default setup. See <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307403">this tech note</a> for more details. I haven't yet switched to Java 6 as ... http://corfield.org/entry/Java_6_just_arrived_on_Leopard seancorfield 2008-04-30T10:51:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee osx If you use Mark Mandel's awesome <a href="http://www.transfer-orm.com/">Transfer ORM</a> in a cluster, you've probably wondered what to do about keeping the cache in sync across servers in the cluster. I've had to solve this problem a couple of times... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Transfer_Cache_Synchronization_in_a_Cluster seancorfield 2008-04-14T20:56:00-05:00 architecture cfobjective coldfusion coldspring j2ee orm oss Andrew Powell - <a href="http://cfobjective.com/sessions_architecture.cfm#SA3A">Enterprise Class MVC with ColdFusion and Java</a> - Saturday 11:25am We hear a lot of talk about using individual Java objects within ColdFusion but the reality of ent... http://corfield.org/entry/cfObjective_2008_Session_Focus__Enterprise_Class_MVC_with_ColdFusion_and_Java seancorfield 2008-03-31T02:37:00-05:00 architecture cfobjective coldfusion j2ee machii Some people have been noticing dramatically slower application startup times on ColdFusion 8 compared to ColdFusion MX 7. I've seen a lot of complaints about shared hosting systems where applications timeout. Since CF8 is so much faster than CFMX7, y... [More] http://corfield.org/entry/Java_6_and_ColdFusion_8 seancorfield 2007-12-05T21:31:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee So I was gave a design patterns presentation at both MAXs... I figured I'd Google to see if I could find any coverage of it (no, I couldn't) and what turned up was <a href="http://corfield.org/entry/Design_Patterns_in_ColdFusion_1">my own blog post</... http://corfield.org/entry/History_Repeats seancorfield 2007-10-19T23:57:00-05:00 adobemax07 architecture coldfusion j2ee These days, ColdFusion developers generally understand the benefits gained in the rewrite from C++ to Java that happened with the shift from ColdFusion 5 to ColdFusion MX and we're continuing to see an uptick in interest for running scripting languag... http://corfield.org/entry/Benefits_of_running_on_Java seancorfield 2007-08-06T19:45:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee I'd never really given much thought to running Java on a shared environment (because I'd never write a web app in JSP when there are more productive options). Turns out that <a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/flozano/archive/2007/07/shared_web_hos... http://corfield.org/entry/Java_and_Shared_Hosting seancorfield 2007-07-31T10:43:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee The JRun team asked me to post an invitation to join the beta program for the next version of JRun: <blockquote> The beta release of the next version of the JRun appserver, code named Cheetah, is available. The Adobe JRun Team is inviting serious ... http://corfield.org/entry/Adobe_JRun__Beta_Program seancorfield 2006-05-02T10:46:00-05:00 adobe j2ee TheServerSide notes that <a href="http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=37021">the JRun team are running a survey</a> for information about your current usage and what you'd like to see in the next release. If you're using JRun for J... http://corfield.org/entry/JRun_Survey_for_next_release seancorfield 2005-10-10T17:11:00-05:00 j2ee Ben Forta has <a href="http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&amp;entry=1756">posted some documentation about CFCProxy</a> that should get you up and running. http://corfield.org/entry/CFCProxy__Some_Documentation seancorfield 2005-10-01T02:04:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee A C|net story a couple of weeks back covers <a href="http://news.com.com/Java+devotee+BEA+eyes+scripting+languages/2100-1012_3-5820062.html">BEA's evaluation of scripting languages</a> and the possibility of adding support directly into their tools a... http://corfield.org/entry/BEA_Considers_Support_For_Scripting_Languages seancorfield 2005-08-21T18:45:00-05:00 coldfusion j2ee Regular readers know I'm a fan of the very irreverant <a href="http://www.jroller.com/page/fate/">BileBlog</a>. The Server Side just published a <a href="http://www.theserverside.com/talks/videos/HaniSuleiman/interview.tss?bandwidth=dsl">video interv... http://corfield.org/entry/What_Makes_Hani_Tick seancorfield 2005-06-04T00:52:00-05:00 j2ee blogging As someone who does not know either UI toolkit in depth but has dipped into Eclipse occasionally, I found this Hacknot piece <a href="http://www.hacknot.info/hacknot/action/showEntry?eid=74">comparing SWT and Swing</a> from a development point of vie... http://corfield.org/entry/SWT_vs_Swing seancorfield 2005-04-26T13:49:00-05:00 j2ee <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/support/jrun/updaters.html">JRun 4 Updater 5</a> is now available. Read the <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/jrun/4/releasenotes_4_updater5.html">Release Notes</a> to see what's new / chan... http://corfield.org/entry/JRun_4_Updater_5 seancorfield 2005-03-24T16:18:00-05:00 j2ee