Railo 3.0 released - Features part 1

Today on September 9th, after long testing and developing we finally released the long awaited and anticipated new version of Railo 3.0. We have done a lot of testing and bug fixing to be able to present you the best Railo version ever.

The new version Railo 3.0 closes the gap to the CFML standard 8.0 as good as possible. In this version we introduced several new enhancements and features. Along with the new version we have re brushed our website. If you have any comments on the website just contact us at info(at)railo.ch.
I just display a list of the new and improved features of Railo 3.0. If you want to check the compatibility to CF 8.0.1 just go to our website. This blog will give you an overview of what is new in Railo 3.0. It will be continued in part 2 this week. From part 3 on I will cover the details of multimedia handling and task management as well as the cluster scope and the instance synchronization feature.

Multimedia enhancments
Railo 3.0 introduces three new tags:

• CFVIDEO *)
  For retreiving information about videos, converting videos, extracting images or concatenating videos.
• CFVIDEOPLAYER
  With this tag you can create a simple Flash Videoplayer with one line of code.
• CFVIDEOPLAYERPARAM
  If you want to create a playlist with CFVIDEOPLAYER, you can use this tag in order to add several videos to the playlist

*) available in Railo 3.0 enterprise
We will have a separate blog entry special for the new multimedia tags.

Task manager
In Railo 3.0 we introduced a task manager that takes care of several background tasks like sending eMail, synchronizing the cluster scope etc. The task manager can be filled with the tag CFTHREAD by using the two new attributes type="task" and retryinterval="...". More on the task manager in part 4.

New Amazon S3 resource
As already covered in a previous blog, in Railo 3 you will be able to use the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as a normal resource. So you can do all file related actions in Railo with your buckets on Amazon S3 easily.
More tomorrow in part II.