Railo Blog - Release

Release notes Railo 3.1.2

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0200

We are very proud to present the next minor release of Railo labeled 3.1.2 which you can easily install by following the usual update procedure as described here.

Updating Railo.

What is new in this version? [More]

Railo - AJAX Tags

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:17:00 +0200

I have just uploaded Andrea Campolonghi's current RC version of the ajax built in tags. Here's what you need to do in order to install and test the tags. [More]

Railo 3.1 release

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:13:00 +0200

We're proud to announce that Railo 3.1 final is available. If you're running Railo 3.1 beta, you can upgrade via the server context with a push of a button!

Check out the What's new, download it, or suggest features

We're in full swing at CFUnited, so if you're here, please stop by the Railo booth and introduce yourself!

p.s. You'll have to excuse any typos as typing on a german keyboard is funky. ;)

Community Recap

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:55:00 +0200

This probably going to be a recap of things that a lot of you may already know. If not, here's your chance to read the recap and to get involved!

Railo (build 3.1.0.015) is current public beta preview.
Railo (build 3.1.0.018) is currently available via the admin by pointing your update URL to http://preview.getRailo.org/ - which has some bug fixes and Built-in-Tag/Function support. If you're looking to beta <cfajaxproxy>, you'll need this build.
Railo (build 3.1.0.020) is currently available via the admin by pointing your update URL to http://dev.railo.ch/ - This is bleeding edge and should be used at your own risk. This is here because Railo Team fixed something and asked you to verify a fix or because you like it when your server bleeds.

Sean Corfield has written a post on how you can build your own Railo from the source - it's important that you remember to use the JDK 5 (Not 6!) when building. Last, but not least, Sean also posted an answer to a twitter question, "Why would I want to build from the source?" - It's a very good question and one that I think you should read. Information on how to get involved and submit patches is forthcoming once the Railo codebase settles down on JBoss website. For now, feel free to communicate via the Railo mailing list.

There are 2 Railo Express builds available:

Railo w/ Jetty
Railo w/ Resin -- Not officially supported, feel free to suggest it at railo.uservoice.com

There are 3 Railo mailing lists:

Railo Discussion
Railo Beta

This is for discussions of beta testing anything new within the community. Currently, the Linux installer and <cfajaxproxy> discussions are filling up the group.

Railo Discussion

This is a group for volunteering your time to help get wiki.getrailo.org back in shape. Instructions on how to volunteer are already posted on the group and available for anyone to read when they subscribe.
This is not a group to beg or get the inside scoop on where documentation is. We're aware that it's a problem and we're working on it.

Please remember that Railo is LGPLv2.1. If you're like me, you're probably wondering what exactly that means? Gert passed me a link as an explanation to help explain and he also passed me a counterpoint explanation of why a project shouldn't be LGPL. As you're reading this, you're probably wondering, why would someone give you a counterpoint link? Because it's important to understand that the Railo team choose LGPL for a reason and already weighed the pros/cons of GPL vs. LGPL. Sean also managed to find another good explanation (pdf) ( GPL is explained on pages 49-62 - it's quite an in-depth analysis! -Sean ).

The CFML community as a whole is going to have to start realizing that they have a lot of power under LGPLv2.1 already. If they feel that there's something that needs to be addressed (such as an installer?), there is *nothing* holding you back from getting involved! If you're not comfortable submitting java patches and such, it doesn't mean you can't make suggestions or help report bugs or make friends within the community and work on a project together.

And, lastly, please remember that you can send me an email anytime you want. I'm in East Coast USA, so... be aware of my time slot (EST, -5 GMT). I will do my best to help you with anything Railo specific and or chase down the Railo team for answers. If you have suggestions about the community (I know I do, I have a couple community stuff up my sleeves that haven't been announced yet) and/or just want to make a comment about anything. I just ask that you understand that I'm a volunteer, I do have a life (wife2be, 2 step kids, 2 dogs) and I do work for a living. My response may be somewhat delayed, but I'm usually fairly prompt in answering questions.

There is too much news in the world but too little is really new

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:16:00 +0200

As of today Railo, your CFML engine of choice, is open source under the license LGPL V2. It is of course a BETA release still, but you have access to the source code. We are still working on several things and day by day there will be new pages added to the website. Below you will find a list of what has been done and what is due before the Final Release.
Done things:

Open Sourcing Railo
The source code is available. Along with the source code, we will release some guidelines on how to build Railo in a Eclipse environment. This is not done yet.
Separate Railo into core and extensions
Now Railo is very easy to extend. We have some Railo core extensions that allow you to upgrade your engine. In addition some applications have been converted into extensions as well.
Extract the complete serial number management
The Railo Open Source version will be the only version of Railo available. This is the core engine. You can of course buy some additions to it but basically there is no other version. Therefore the Railo Server Administrators will be not restricted at all.
New websites
This was very important for us. So we created three different new websites for your services. Since we are an open source company now we have to rely on the services we provide. Therefore we introduced the new website www.getrailo.com.
In order to interact tightly with the community and to offer a platform for exchanging experiences between developers we created a community driven website which is reachable at www.getrailo.org.
The third one, important of course as well is the documentation website. It's running on Transfer/ColdBox and Codex WIKI. It will contain most of the documentation and guides as well as user generated content.

There will be many things happening in the next 4 months so please stay tuned and help us create the best and fastest OS version available. Things that will follow this week:

Blog entry about BlazeDS
New features
Updating documentation
Installer guidelines

Professional Open Source
Community driven
Railo Documentation

Railo 3.1 - it will be next year

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:37:00 +0200

Lately many people asked us about Railo 3.1 and the release date for it. We announced back in June that it will be November or so. We never thought there would be so huge positive reactions from the community. Because of that and because you can never make a first impression twice, we have postponed our release date for Railo 3.1. [More]

Railo 3.0 released - Features part IV - Task manager, Remote synchronization

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:19:00 +0200

The task manager and the synchronization feature (including the cluster scope) are some of the most useful background changes we have made in Railo 3.0. They allow you to use Railo for background activities and help you configure clustered Railo instances. [More]

Railo 3.0 released - Features part III - Multimedia

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:23:00 +0200

As you might have read in my previous entries, Railo 3.0 introduces some new multimedia tags and functions. In this blog entry I will show you how to use them. [More]

Railo 3.0 released - Part II.5 - Railo EC² image available

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:44:00 +0200

With the release of Railo 3.0 we have built a Amazon EC² image which allows you to create your own running instance of it. [More]

A short install intermezzo

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:37:00 +0200

Before I post part III of Railo 3.0 release entry, just a quick one on how to update Railo from one version to a newer one. [More]

Railo 3.0 released - Features part 2

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:42:00 +0200

Since Railo 3.0 is a major release, many new things have made their way into the new version. Next to the things i mentioned yesterday, I would like to introduce you to a couple of other new compelling features. [More]

Railo 3.0 released - Features part 1

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:44:00 +0200

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. [More]

Extension Manager

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:19:00 +0200

With the new extension manager we are implementing for Railo 3.1 Open Source many problems with installing applications or Railo Extensions should be a thing of the past. [More]

Great!!! First meeting in Tampa called off due to strike at Lufthansa.

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:09:00 +0200

What an odyssey. Everything worked well, got to the airport in time and then it started. I had to run from one check in counter to the next and back to the first. So after finally getting to the gate ready for boarding, one of the ground crew members told us that the flight is delayed due to a strike of the ground and catering crew at Frankfurt airport. I notified Donald immediately and hoped for the best.
After a delay of two hours, the plane was finally boarded and we took off 2:30 hours later than scheduled. So I was arriving just in time in Atlanta and was able to pass the passport control and the customs quite fast, just to find out that the plane I was supposed to take down to Tampa was broken and therefore canceled. Great.
So what to do? Directly fly to Detroit? Not possible since all flights are fully booked. So I will fly down to Tampa, do NO presentation (which I am really sorry for!!!) but at least meet some of the people from Jagged Peak the ones that build Edge the CFML shop software Davidoff uses. If you are in the Tampa area and you were supposed to attend today's presentation, I am really sorry for the cancellation, if you want to complain, you can do it here: www.lufthansa.com for the strike and www.delta.com for the broken plane.
Sorry again folks. And many thanks to Donald Bickel from the Tampa CFUG for all the help and support.

Railo @ CFUnited

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:23:00 +0200

Next week we will be at CFUnited. We will share a booth togehter with Intergral (FusionX products) and are there to present the nev version of Railo 3.0 and talk about the open source release Railo 3.1 on JBoss.org. If you have any comments or questions, don't hesitate to visit us of course.
On Wednesday we will host a BoF session which you can see as an opportunity to talk to us about the further development and other open source related things. The questions I would like to discuss are:

Questions about the partnering with jboss.org
What are your expectations
How should we work together with Adobe
what would you like to have in the open source edition
independant steering commitee suggestions
functionalities of JBoss AS in Railo (Hibernate, JBoss Cache etc.)
support things
Training opportunities
bundles with other apps
Packages, plugins, modules

On Friday, June 20th in the common keynote, Mark Drew our temporary evangelist will present the plans for Railo 3.1 and maybe some of the results of the BoF session. We would really be happy to see you at CFUnited 2008.