Claude Englebert

I had an interesting question from a Belgian user recently : do we have a CFSRIPT version of CFPOP and CFIMAP ?

Well the answer is no.  And yes :-)

In addition to core language level support for various programming elements in cfscript, we have added support for only selected functionality already available thru tag syntax like ftp, http, mail, pdf, query, storedproc.

They are all implemented as CFCs and are present in CustomTags\com\adobe\coldfusion folder.

And these CFCs are all open source and can be extended as per customers requirement. One can easily extend cfscript support for unsupported tags by writing and dropping the CFCs in these folders and these CFCs would automatically be imported into default namespace and available with syntax like new someCFC() directly.

PS.: Thanks to Sanjeev for helping me out on this one.

I've been through this issue earlier this week, so simply let me reproduce Josh Adam's blog entry about this :

We've recently seen an issue where the ColdFusion 9 installation program on 64-bit Linux will not accept valid ColdFusion 9 Standard license keys (we have not seen any issue with it accepting valid ColdFusion 9 Enterprise license keys). The workaround for this issue is to install ColdFusion 9 as Trial (that is, do not enter the license key during installation) and then enter the license key via the ColdFusion Administrator after the installation has completed.

... and so is ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 !!!

Check out all the new features, demos, facts and figures about this much anticipated new version of ColdFusion : http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/.

And beside new features, amazing news on pricing and EULA too :

• Usage with cloud computing is now supported. Each license of ColdFusion will limit you to a number of instances.
  • Standard 1 instance
  • Enterprise 10 instances
• ColdFusion 9 boxes dedicated to testing or group development no longer require their own licenses. A license of ColdFusion 9 you buy for production will allow you to create the rest of your environment. This is in addition to the change in the EULA we made in ColdFusion 8 to cover passive backup servers. We made both of these changes because it was important to us that developers not be penalized for following best practices.

When you read the EULA you'll see:

3.1.3 If Licensee purchases one or more Production Software licenses, then Adobe also grants Licensee the right to install and use the Software as Development Software for internal development, testing and staging.

It's important to note that this means that you can install additional copies of your production server in Standard or Enterprise (whichever license you bought) to take one of these roles.  The Developer Edition of ColdFusion is still limited to 3 IPs but your shared development server with Standard or Enterprise will not be limited.

Happy developing, testing, and staging.

Pricing for ColdFusion Standard has not changed and for Enterprise has dropped of about... 25% in EMEA !

Would you like to upgrade now ?  Call me at +32 2 416 40 52.

If you do not have the chance to join us at MAX Los Angeles at least register for the online broadcasting :

http://max.adobe.com/online/

Seats are limited so hurry.

You can download it from http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/511/cpsid_51180.html.