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Alternate CFML engines posted on: 10/8/08
Description: I've recently spent some time looking at alternative CMFL engines Including Open Blue Dragon and Railo. I've set up a spare server running VMware Server 2 which is just great and surprisingly, even on older hardware, performs quite well running multiple VM's simultaneously.
The Open Blue Dragon image worked perfectly and although I haven't used Linux as a server for some time it was easy enough to get Samba working so I could edit from a remote machine. I endeavour to spend more time with BD in the coming months.
The real surprise was Railo. It had a nice installer ( windows 2k3 server ). Worked without issue and following Gert Franz's how to I was up and running in IIS without too much trouble (once I got the hang of resin.conf ). The admin section was great and I had no trouble connecting to Mysql, MS SQL 2005 and 2008 without changing anything. I really like how close it replicates CF8's special features and so far have had no issues with generating PDFs with cfdocument, reading/writing/manipulating images with cfimage and reading rss feeds with cffeed.
The one caveat with anything other than ColdFusion is the lack out an out of the box, working AMF solution. So in the short term Ill be sticking with CF8 but defiantly intend to set up a Railo box at home for prototyping.
