In this blog post I wanted to share with the community some of the download statistics that we have had from http://www.getrailo.org.

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Came across some sad news on twitter, but 2010 is apparently the last CFUnited conference. If you haven't already registered, please do it now to take advantage of the early bird special. Don't forget to use "RAICUST" as your promo code for an additional discount.

I'd like to welcome AJ Mercer for stepping up and taking the role of the Australian/APAC Community Manager. I've updated the Team Bio with his information and you can read about his acceptance on his blog.

Are you next? :)

This is a great example of how a project moves from the community into the core of Railo. Starting with version 3.1.2.009 (Bleeding Edge Release), Railo will include the core ajax tags and javascript library. This means that the following tags will be available by default:

• CFAJAXPROXY
• CFAJAXIMPORT
• CFDIV

Railo Ajax project has been broken into what we call CORE and UI. Core means that it will ship with the Railo codebase. UI means that you will be able to further extend your Railo server by downloading additional extensions (cfwindow, cfmap, cflayout) from http://railoajax.org/provider.cfc or http://railoajax.org/extensionProvider.cfc. Please note, when you use the providers listed, you will see 2 Railo Ajax Projects. One is for Railo builds prior to 3.1.2.009 and the other is for builds 3.1.2.009 and after.

So, the recommend steps for upgrading is:

1. Upgrade to Railo 3.1.2.009
2. Remove any previous railoajax instance.
3. Restart Railo ( http://{your host name}/railo-context/admin/server.cfm?action=services.restart )
4. Re-install Railoajax (UI, if needed) from http://railoajax.org/extensionProvider.cfc USING VERSION >=3.1.2.009

Please give Andrea Campolonghi feedback on the Railo-Beta mailing list!

Another fine example of extending your Railo server by Andrea Campolonghi. Working on large ajax projects it is not uncommon to see pages that include a lot of javascript and css files. We're often times mixing and matching javascript plugins which sometimes has css stylings that go along with the plugins. We have worked to a solution that can help developers and let the server do the job of compressing and concatenating files. Let's imagine that your app need the following js files:

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Gert announced tonight on Twitter that we're looking to get a pre-release group together to get feedback on Railo's ORM / Hibernate feature. If you're interested in being part of this pre-release group, please contact us. Please note, that the full cfml scripting support is not available yet in Railo, so your existing ORM coding may require some changes.

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)!