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JOHNRD33
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December 16, 2009
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cf9 on dev/laptop and cf8 on test/prod

  • December 16, 2009
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This maybe a dumb question but I have cf9 on my laptop/dev and my staging and prod servers have cf8 and due to budget constraints we aren't going to be able upgrade them to cf9 for a year or so. I am wondering if there is any utility or way of flagging me if I am using cf9 only functionality before I push my dev code to staging. I want to keep cf9 because I have a different "customer" that has cf9 on dev and prod and we plan to utilize some new cf9 functionality there. One idea I had was to have cf8 and cf9 on my dev/laptop but I don't know much about that, it sounds like it wouldn't be too good of an idea. I was just wondering if anybody has any thoughts about this, thanks.

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    ilssac
    ilssac
    Inspiring
    December 16, 2009

    It's quite doable to have both 8 and 9 on the same system.  You just have to use one of the more advanced installtaion options rather then the basic "Stand Alone" option.  Instead you use one of the Java Server options, i.e. J2EE or Multi-home.  Then you can easily install one "CF8" java server and one "CF9" java server.  They each get their own space are are completely seperate from each other.

    Otherwise, you could just print out some sort of "What's New in CF9" document and keep it on hand while doing development you know is going to go on CF8.  You will find that ColdFusion has a pretty good track record with compitability so you should have little problem with this just as long as you avoid the well documented new features.

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