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If you are developing a ColdFusion application, or even just a stand alone CFC that you plan to distribute, you might want to make sure it runs on all three major CFML engines – Adobe ColdFusion, Railo, and Open BlueDragon. It can be tedious to always copy code around between your three test sites, but there is an easier way. You can have the same code base run through all three CFML engines at once.

There are a few caveats: Continue reading ‘Running your CFML code through Railo, OpenBD, and Adobe CF all at once’ »

Posted by Ryan on July 15 2009 at 9:28 pm under BlueDragon, ColdFusion, Railo, Tomcat, Web Development.
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I have been working on an project in my spare time that will eventually be deployed on Open BlueDragon. I ran into an error the other night after adding some methods to one my CFCs. I run all three CFML engines side by side (another blog post about that is coming soon), so I was easily able to see and compare the error messages in all three.

This was my error message in OpenBD:
error-openbd
Continue reading ‘Error messages on Railo, OpenBD and ColdFusion 8 compared’ »

Posted by Ryan on July 13 2009 at 7:05 am under BlueDragon, ColdFusion, Railo.
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After installing Open Blue Dragon on Tomcat and hooking it up to Apache, I did some poking around and found I was able to pull up my bluedragon.xml configuration file directly in my browser. Now, this may not happen in all configurations (there are many ways to setup a J2EE web application), but it my case, running through Apache and having copied Blue Dragon’s WEB-INF directory to my webroot, I was able to browse this file. In case you didn’t know, all OpenBD’s settings are stored in a single xml file (which I find very convenient, by the way).

It didn’t work when going directly through Tomcat, i.e. browsing on port 8080 would not pull it up, I think Tomcat is smart enough to know not to serve files from the WEB-INF directory. But browsing through Apache on port 80 bypasses Tomcat for anything thats not a .cfm or .cfc file, so it would happily return the xml file. Datasource passwords are stored encrypted but the administrator password is clear text. Its easy to lock this down, just add this to your Apache config file:

<location "/WEB-INF/">
deny from all
</location>

Posted by Ryan on June 17 2009 at 10:36 am under BlueDragon, System Administration, Web Development.
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If you’ve ran into this error when consuming a web service in Open BlueDragon, this may help you. Here is what my error looked like:
Continue reading ‘java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError error on OpenBD when consuming a webservice’ »

Posted by Ryan on June 8 2009 at 9:53 am under BlueDragon, ColdFusion, Railo.
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