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jim1234
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January 11, 2012
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Coldfusion 10 concerns

  • January 11, 2012
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Hi all,

This is a general discussion about Coldfusion 10, since I don't think the release is too far away.

Coldfusion 10 now uses many other products such as:  Tomcat, hibernate, Axis, jQuery, perhaps others?

My main concern with this is that Adobe will not upgrade the versions of these other products in a timely fashion to fix bugs in them or take advantage of new features when new versions of these other products come out.  For instance, I know Coldfusion was on an old version of Axis for a while.  This could become a problem if they stay on an old version for too long of one of the underlying products.  Adobe really needs to have a way of being able to update these products one at a time, independent of the others, modifying and adding tags/functions to take advantage of the new version of one of the products as it becomes available.  But I just don't know if that will be the case.

Any one else have thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Jim

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    Adam Cameron.
    Inspiring
    January 11, 2012

    I think it's a real concern.  One particular area which has raised a red flag for me along these lines is that the regex processor CF uses has been retired as of 2010, having not had any activity whatsoever since 2004: http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/

    I have raised this issue and tried to get it dealt with, but have had zero luck.  http://cfbugs.adobe.com/cfbugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html#bugId=76175

    Now the regex library is not so fundamental to the product as the elements you mention, which might explain how it's been allowed to become so outdated.  That said, specifically because it's not core would surely mean it would be easier to update that more fundamental parts of the language/framework.

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    Adam

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    jim1234Author
    Inspiring
    January 11, 2012

    Adobe really seems focused on the major releases for Coldfusion, and seems to

    have few minor releases.  Coldfusion 10 would have taken at least 2.5 years

    since version 9, which is a long time.  The wait will hopefully be worth it,

    but I really think they need to have more minor versions like 10.1, etc. to

    address the other issues.

    But it's probably a business decision as they only make money on the major

    versions, so they don't want to spend much time on minor versions.

    Jim

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