Upgrading the JRE used in Railo
When you install Railo, the default JRE that comes with it is 1.6.0_01. So you might want to upgrade it some when.
Struct addressing in Railo
There is a major difference in how Railo addresses structs in comparison to the CFML standard. The result is that implicit addressing, (as I call it) works in the CFML standard but not in Railo. This is an issue we are long aware of AND we will NOT fix it.
Next relaunch with Railo
Just a quick note on another large website that has been launched with Railo. www.computerwoche.de with around 5,000,000 page impressions per month has been redesigned and relaunched with Railo on May 1st this year. Next to the dramatic performance improvement, the servers now run very stable. If you want to have a look just go to Computerwoche Germany
The site is hosted on the servers that already serve the 100,000,000 pi's of www.pcwelt.de. It runs on Railo 2.0.0.045 and is based on RedHat Linux with a MSSQL 2005 serving as the database server.
Query caching in Railo and CFMX
Caching queries is something that one should use since it can dramatically speed up the delivery of a page.
Creating Railo archives
I have been asked several times to describe how to create and use a Railo archive. This entry also describes how to include images inside an archive.
Big boost thanks to Railo
Before Christmas, Railo took another leap forward when it comes to major websites and feasibility. One of Germany's major IT-websites (www.pcwelt.de) which is created by IDG Communications AG, has been relaunched with Railo 2.0. PCWelt records around 50,000,000 pi per month.
Digital world on a chip – fotoworld
The german digital imaging portal Chip Fotoworld has been redesigned and lifted from Coldfusion MX 7.0 to Railo 2.0 Professional.
Performance again
Today another performance comparison was posted in a private blog.
Application stuff
Railo 1.1 offers a new way of handling and more flexibility with auto include files. Auto include files for CFMX are application.cfm, application.cfc and onRequestEnd.cfm
Silence
A major disadvantage of generated code is the size of the generated html. When you have something like <cfscript> this may not be an issue since the complete code generates no output unless you use something like echo() or writeOutput().
