Charlie Arehart, CTO charlienewatlanta.com

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Deploying CFML with BlueDragon Dont
MigrateRedeploy

• Charlie Arehart, CTOcharlie_at_newatlanta.com

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About Your Speaker

• Newly named CTO of New Atlanta
• 6 yrs CF, 20 yrs IT experience
• Tech co-editor ColdFusion Dev Journal magazine
• Frequent writer for them Macromedia DevNet
• Co-authored new ColdFusion MX Bible
• Certified advanced CF 4/5/MX developer
• Frequent speaker to user groups, conferences
  worldwide

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Overview

• BlueDragon Introduction
• Deployment Challenges
• Installation Issues
• Frequently Asked Questions

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Moving to J2EE or .NET?

• The technology platform highway has split, and
  most organizations today are faced with choosing
  directions between Sun's J2EE and Microsoft's .NET

• Corporate/Industry standardization
• Planned reduction in overall IT-related costs
• Consolidation/Collaboration requiring tight
  integration among disparate systems

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Which Path is Correct?

• New Atlanta is leading the way with native
  platform integration and deployment of CFML on
  .NET and J2EE.

Freedom of Choice
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Either Path is Correct

• Shield, protect and preserve your existing
  investments in CFML code and expertise
• by deploying with BlueDragon on your technology
  platform, web server and operating system of
  choice.

Migrate, Integrate and Extend

• CFML Applications with
• ASPs or JSPs
• C or Java
• .NET or J2EE

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Avoiding Migration Costs

• We can help you avoid the costs of migrating off
  of CFML, such as moving to JSP or ASP.NET
• Budgetary Costs
• Significant Cost of Migration to New Platform
• Re-Write in-house, out-source, or both
• New Skill Sets will be needed
• Replace / augment resources, training on new
  language
• Sunk Costs
• Loss of Valuable Investment in existing CFML
• Can you afford to throw it all out?
• Loss of CFML Skill Set
• Loss of productivity from CFML language
• Opportunity Costs
• Time for On-Going Development lost to Time spent
  on Migration

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With BlueDragon You Can

• Preserve your Investment in existing CFML code
• Retain and Leverage your CFML Skill Sets
• CFML is still the most productive web-scripting
  language
• Migrate to your New Platform easily
• Drag, Drop and Deploy
• Integrate and Extend Existing Applications
• Continue Developing in CFML
• Leverage native hi-performance platform features
• JSPs, Servlets, EJBs other J2EE technologies
  (J2EE)
• ASP.NET, COM, ADO.NET, C, VisualBasic.NET
• Preserve your past and continue to leverage
• as part of your strategic future!

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BlueDragon Editions
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BlueDragon Server JX
BlueDragon CFML Engine

• Fully Functional Web Application Server
• CFML (CF5 Compatible)
• Integrates with Servlets/JSPs
• JDBC Database Connectivity
• Built-In web server for development and testing

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BlueDragon Server JX

• Supported Platforms

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BlueDragon for J2EE App. Servers
.war, .ear
BlueDragon CFML Engine

• A deployment module for any J2EE Application
  Server
• CFML (CF5 Compatible)
• Integrates with Servlets/JSPs, EJBs and other
  J2EE technologies
• Package and Deploy within standard J2EE archives
  (WAR or EAR)
• Protect CFML source via compiled binary format
  option
• JDBC Database Connectivity
• BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, iPlanet Application
  Server, Oracle 9iAS, Borland Ent. Server, JBoss,
  Macromedia JRun
• ServletExec, Tomcat

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BlueDragon for J2EE App. Servers

• Deploy CFML within a standard J2EE archive file
  (WAR/EAR), on any standard J2EE platform.
• Base WAR file size is under 2 Megabytes
• Deploy CFML within compiled binaries, protecting
  intellectual property.
• Deploy CFML across multiple independent web
  applications on a single server

Standard
Compact
Secure
Flexible
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Drag, Drop and Deploy
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BlueDragon for .NET

BlueDragon CFML Engine
Coming Soon

• A Plug-in module for Microsofts .NET Platform
• CFML
• Hybrid CFML/.NET applications
• Native high performance integration
• ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C, Visual Basic.NET, COM
• Integrated .NET Session Data Sharing
• Native Database Connectivity

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BlueDragon Configurations
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Feature Comparison Matrix I
Functionality Dependant on Deployment
Server Available Soon BlueDragon V3.1
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Feature Comparison Matrix II
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Who Is New Atlanta?

• Founded in 1997, privately held New Atlanta is
  located in Alpharetta, Georgia (north metro
  Atlanta).
• New Atlanta develops, markets, distributes, and
  supports advanced server-side software products
  for Sun Microsystems Java 2 Enterprise Edition
  (J2EE) and Microsoft .NET platforms.
• New Atlanta's active technical leadership
  includes charter membership in the Java Servlet
  API and JavaServer Pages (JSP) Expert Groups, in
  addition to JDBC Expert Group, as part of Sun's
  Java Community Process.

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New Atlanta Product Line
New Atlanta develops, markets, distributes, and
supports advanced server-side software
products needed to deploy and administer dynamic
Internet web sites and web-enabled applications.
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Products

• New Atlantas flagship product is a light weight
  web application server that implements the Java
  Servlet API and JavaServer Pages (JSP) standards
  as an add-on to Microsoft, Netscape, iPlanet and
  Apache web servers
• First released in December 1997 the current
  version, ServletExec 4.2, was released on October
  11, 2002
• Supports Java Servlet 2.3, JSP 1.2, Java WSDP
  1.0, and JSTL 1.0
• Type 4 (pure Java) JDBC driver for Microsoft SQL
  Server
• First released in December 1998, currently
  supports JDBC 1.2, 2.1 3.0 specifications
• Type 3 JDBC Driver JTurbo Server currently in
  beta
• CFML on J2EE and .NET
• Migrate, natively integrate extend CFML on J2EE
  or .NET
• Technology first used in production in 1998
  acquired by New Atlanta in November 2001

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New Atlanta Customers

• Over 10,000 customers in 65 countries
• From small corporations to Fortune 500 Global
  500
• Web-based retail sales (
• Single-server websites (small company,
  municipality)
• Multi-CPU, multi-server websites (i.e. Banking,
  eCommerce)
• Lands End, Budget Rent-A-Car, West Law,
• VAR/OEM and volume sales (20-1500 units)
• Seamless bundle, web-enabling new and existing
  applications
• Cisco, Lucent, Morgan Stanley, ESRI, Information
  Builders
• All major vertical industries
• Finance, Telecom, Healthcare, Education,
  Software, Energy, Media

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Key Features and Benefits

• J2EE-based features, as in CFMX
• J2ee sessions
• Integration with Libraries, Java classes
• JSPs side-by-side with CFML, and shared
  variables, include/forward
• Forward among CFML pages
• Locking issues reduced handled by the JVM
• URLSessionFormat function for managing sessions
  without cookies
• Similar integration opps on .NET
• Also, native integration with COM
• Deployment of CFML apps on J2EE servers as
  standard J2EE web apps
• With CFMX for J2EE, deploy CF then copy code onto
  deployed app
• May not be permitted by server admins
• Supporting for objects on underlying J2EE or .NET
  platform
• Where substantial framework is in place to
  support OO
• Support for multiple instances on J2EE edition
• To protect applications from each other

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Key Features and Benefits

• Available Free edition
• Free for deployment, not just development and
  testing
• All products available free (single IP) for
  development/testing
• Added CFML tags and functions
• Created before CFMX was released, such as
  CFFORWARD, CFINCLUDE PAGE
• Others CFDUMP with no VAR, CFIMAGE, CFIMAP,
  CFPAUSE
• CACHENAME attribute for CFQUERY
• For supporting named caches, more easily managed
  than CF 5/MX
• ParagraphFormat more properly does convert single
  CR to
  
• We dont stress those too much
• Many useful additions to our administator
• Track datasource usage, template cache usage,
  more

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• Deployment Challenges

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Deployment Challenges

• BlueDragon has come a long way in 2 years
• Still, a handful of issues do still remain
• Some Missing CF 5 Features
• Some CF 5 Incompatibilities
• Many Missing CFMX Features
• Compatibility Guide explains all these
• Offers work-arounds where available

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Missing CF 5 Features

• Currently lacks support for a handful of CF5
  tags
• Verity, Crystal Reports, CFAPPLET, CFGRID,
  CFAUTHENTICATE, and CFIMPERSONATE
• CFOBJECT typejava only (not COM or CORBA)
• Cookies created via CFCOOKIE only, not CFSET or
  CFPARAM
• Query/Update no DSN-less connections
• But query of queries is supported
• And a handful of CF5 functions
• parameterexists()
• authentication-related (isauthenticated,
  isauthorized, etc.)
• Also obsoleted or deprecated in CFMX

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More CF 5 Missing Features

• CFGRAPH creates JPGs only
• No auto-escaping of SQL statement single-quotes
• Use CFQUERYPARAM
• CFREGISTRY simulates registry operations
• Some CFTREE and CFTREEITEM attributes not
  supported

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Some CF 5 Incompatibilities

• No dots in variable names (unless for prefixes or
  structures, of course), similar to CFMX
• CFAPPLICATION NAME required
• Issues with whitespace within tags
• Would trip over CFSETname
• Closing tags w/out tag body
• not allowed
• is ok
• not allowed
• Unless using METHODpost, since CFHTTPPARAM
  would be nested
• People present us the oddest variants of CFML
• That work in CF 4/5 but are not according to
  documentation
• We strive to resolve these as soon as possible
• Often days, if not hours

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CF 5 features due in 3.1

• Many issues due to be fixed in 3.1
• FORM scope holds query string and form post data
• URL scope is an alias for FORM
• CALLER prefix refers only to callers VARIABLES
  scope
• Some WDDX issues
• Client variable management issues
• CFQueryParam issues
• SCALE, NULL, LIST, and SEPARATOR attributes are
  not supported
• CFSQLTYPE CF_SQL_BIT, CF_SQL_MONEY4,
  CF_SQL_IDSTAMP, CF_SQL_REFCURSOR not supported
• Handful of locale-specific functions, and a
  couple others
• Process CFENCODEd templates

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More 3.1 Additions

• All due to be added in 3.1
• Error handling templates
• Debug output
• Suppress White Space global option
• CFASSOCIATE
• CFX C Custom tags
• More..
• Also
• Several performance enhancements
• Admin improvements

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CFMX Features Due in 3.1

• BlueDragon supports many CFMX-like features
  already, more will be added
• Some MX features due in 3.1
• XML, Web Services, Internationalization, CFTRACE,
  CFIMPORT of CFML, GetPageContext and other J2EE
  Integration opps, more
• Substantial compatibility planned for Release 4
  timeframe

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• Installation Issues

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Installation Issues

• Installation Features
• Web Server Issues
• Sharing Code Between Versions

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Installation Features

• BlueDragon install detects/imports CF 4/5
  datasource definitions
• Can run BlueDragon alongside CF 4/5/MX
• Just be aware of potential web server conflicts

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Web Server Issues

• For given web server, only one CFML server can
  typically process .cfm templates (BlueDragon or
  CF)
• Just as CF5 and CFMX cant run on the same web
  server
• Can modify this, if careful, but not supported by
  default installs
• Can install BlueDragon Server JX with typical web
  servers
• IIS, Apache, Iplanet, Netscape Enterprise Server
• BllueDragon Server (free edition) has web server
  limitations
• IIS on Windows
• Apache on Linux
• Like CFMX, both BlueDragon servers offer option
  of built-in web server for development and
  testing
• Port 8080 by default
• BlueDragon/J2EE will run on whatever web
  server/OS that any underlying J2EE server supports

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Sharing Code Between Versions

• Can configure to have all CF and BlueDragon
  servers share same code directory
• For instance, running CF 5, MX, BlueDragon
  Server(s), CFMX for J2EE and BlueDragon/J2EE all
  at once
• All pointing at one web doc directory
• Such as for compatibility and regression testing
• How to?
• Depends mostly on configuring web servers
  appropriately
• Working on white paper to explain in more detail
• Contact me by email if you need this info before
  then
• For now, can just copy code among web doc
  directories for each web server

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• Frequently Asked Questions

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Frequently Asked Questions

• Is CFML a dying language?
• We dont think so. Indeed, we want to help keep
  it alive
• Are you stealing business from Macromedia?
• Were trying to keep people in the CFML fold,
  protect investments
• Isnt Macromedia upset with BlueDragon?
• They promote that CFML is now no longer
  proprietary
• Is substantial compatibility enough?
• If we provide key deployment solutions, is
  complete compatibility as critical? Are people
  really swapping servers frequently?
• Are you breaking the spec of CFML?
• There is no spec, and the extensions we offer
  were added before CFMX was released
• If Macromedia wanted to develop a specification,
  wed support it

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Frequently Asked Questions

• Do you offer free developer editions of all
  products?
• Yes, full function for 30 days, then limited to
  one IP address
• Is the free Server really free for production?
• Yes. Want to make it easy for people to stay
  with/move to CFML
• Is it crippled like CF Express was?
• Not nearly. It didnt support CFMAIL, CFFILE,
  CFDIRECTORY, CFERROR, CFCACHE, and CFCONTENT, to
  name just a few. We support them all
• Doesnt support CFEXECUTE, CFGRAPH,
  CFOBJECT/CreateObject(), CFSCHEDULE, CFWDDX,
  CFSERVLET (and CFFORWARD, CFIMAGE, CFIMAP,
  CFPAUSE)
• Is the free edition limited to one IP address?
• No, but the built-in web server is (its intended
  for dev use). This can be changed
• Are there BlueDragon Hosting providers?
• We just began a program of offering partnerships
  (discounts, special support) for hosting
  partners, as well as VAR (value added reseller)
  and SI (system integrator) partners

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Frequently Asked Questions

• Do you support Fusebox?
• We have customers who have deployed FB apps on
  BlueDragon
• Do you run on Mac OS X? Netware? Mainframe?
• BlueDragon J2EE installs on any J2EE server. If
  it supports these things, then BlueDragon (and
  your CFML) can run on them
• Doesnt Macromedia offer a J2EE solution?
• Yes, but CFMX for J2EE does not deploy your CFML
  apps in a standard way and there are some server
  compatibility issues
• Why do you discuss features before release?
• We realize that companies need to make decisions
  months out
• What is the primary market for BlueDragon?
• Organizations being forced off of CFML for .NET
  and J2EE
• What is the main message to remember?
• Dont rewriteredeploy!

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More Questions?

• Long Live CFML!
• If you have any questions,
• charlie_at_newatlanta.com
• BlueDragon Web Site (docs, articles, whitepapers,
  FAQs, more)
• http//www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon/
• BlueDragon Interest Mailing List (customers, NAC
  engineers)
• http//www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/self
  _help/
• My new BlueDragon Blog
• http//bluedragon.blog-city.com/