I am happy to say that at this year's CeBIT in Hannover, Germany we are joining the stand of our partners Contens and Intergral.
We are very proud that both Contens and Intergral are increasingly relying on Railo as a CFML engine. If you like to visit us, we have many new things we can show you and we might even help you with some problems. If you need any assistance from the best Railo programmers come see us in hall 6 stand J32. On one of the days Mark Drew will be there as well.

We're looking forward to seeing you in Hannover in 2 March! If you want to meet us there either contact us or fill out the form on the contens homepage.

Read the full press release by Contens.

Before we begin the last part of the cache blog, let's do a little review.

In the first part, I have shown how the cache is used as an object cache, how to create a cache and interact with it but not more. The second part was on everything that is possible with the cache, and for what it can be used. In the last part we want to see at some special cases and deliver the promised reference.

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First off, I wanted to wish everyone a Happy 2010!! Almost 2 weeks late. Better late than never. ;) Railo Open Source has come a long way since the open source release on March 31st, 2009 and we hope to make 2010 even more interesting for the community.

For those of you that aren't on the mailing list, you may be unaware that Jordan Michaels of Vivio Technologies fame has stepped up to be the Volunteer Community Deployments Coordinator for Railo last month. Jordan Michaels and Andrea Campolonghi have been busy ever since getting the new Installers project up and running. Keep in mind that this is a Community effort and the Railo team is very appreciative of Jordan's time in helping the CFML Community become a better place as he's also very active with the Open BlueDragon installers as well.

Be sure to keep tabs on http://projects.getrailo.org/, you may find some interesting hosted projects now and then.

I hope everyone knows by now that Railo is a JBoss Community project? We recently completed the JBoss ISV Partner approval process so that Railo is listed as an ISV Partner and the Railo server is listed in the ISV software catalog. This should help draw even more new users to CFML from the Java community (we already see a steady stream of Railo downloads by Java developers who have not previously used CFML)!

If you've installed or upgraded to Railo 3.1.2+ and you're also using Transfer, you may (or may have already) bumped into this error:

Message: Bean creation exception during init() of transfer.TransferFactory
Detail: read acccess is protected:to access the configuration without a password, you need to change the read access to [open] in the Server Administrator

To get around this issue, you'll need to do the following:

1. Log into your server admin:
   • http://{hostname}/railo-context/admin/server.cfm?action=security.access
2. Change "Access Read" to "Open" and save.

Nothing has changed in regards to code, but a decision was made to tighten down security.

So, ages ago we posted up the origin of Railo and where the name comes from. Micha actually tracked down the episode and gave us a little clip. It came from Star Trek Enterprise, Season 1 - Episode 25. I think this may solve some of the, 'how do you pronounce Railo?' questions.

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Just a reminder that speaker selection for CFUnited 2010 started and that if you have a CFML topic that you think should be discussed and you're want to try your hand at presenting, you should submit your here ( http://callforspeakers.cfconf.org/ ). If there's any interest in presenting Railo related topics (ehcache caching, clustering, etc), by all means, let us know so we can assist you.

If you haven't been to cfunited before, I highly recommend it. I went to the 2009 conference (Thanks again Railo!) and it was great. Met a lot of people, talked a lot about CFML, jQuery and AIR. I dare say there was a lot of CFML developers interested in jQuery tracks. If you think jQuery is being discussed way too much in the cfml community (is that possible?) and you're a fan of dojo and whatnot, YOU SHOULD BE PRESENTING. Topics like this are awesome because they're relevant and they expose CFML developers to another framework that they might possibly look into / work with.

If you are considering going to CFUnited, do yourself a favor, take a laptop. If you don't have one, beg, steal or borrow. There are a few hands on development track, but most of it is presentation and you should be trying out new code or brainstorming while you're there. The whole place is a big fountain of ideas. I have seen people assisting with debugging other people's code in the hallways, etc.

Plus, If you're working on something cool now, you have a chance to present that 'something' at CFUnited's demo mania - they let anyone get up and present interesting stuff on their project. Slidesix's desktop app, Fusiondox and John Mason's Merlin project were presented among others. Even Raymond Camden had a cfml maze demonstration that from his blog. So, big or small ideas, feel free to share with the CFML community!

Railo 3.1.2.001 in now on public preview ( http://preview.getrailo.org/ ). If you need assistance updating, You can watch a demo on how to update your Railo build. It's easy, I promise.

Edit: I incorrectly reported that it was 3.1.2.002, it's not - it's 3.1.2.001

Hot on the heels of 3.1.1.017, Build 3.1.2.000 is available on the public preview update site ( http://preview.getrailo.org/ ). You can find details on how to update your Railo build here.

As always, you should take caution when updating your Railo server. We're looking for feedback on this build, so if you find any issues - please let us know as it's important to note that 3.1.2 will eventually become the public build.

Gert just tweeted about the "Ram Resource Info" being available on the preview site ( http://preview.getrailo.org/ExtensionProvider.cfc ). I thought I'd take a moment to show you how to install and use it.

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