Upgrading From Cold Fusion 5 to Cold Fusion 7

[sachin_td]

Can somebody provide me with all the steps required to upgrade from cold fusion 5 to cold fusion 7 including the issues that need to be faced during this process.

[Newsgroup_User]

updating what?
an application? a simple website? a server?


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sachin_td wrote:
> Can somebody provide me with all the steps required to upgrade from cold fusion 5 to cold fusion 7 including the issues that need to be faced during this process.

[sachin_td]

Earlier we were using cold fusion 5 on our servers, now we need to upgrade to cold fusion 7.

[Newsgroup_User]

gotcha.
afaik everything should carry over... but I'm no expert on CF5,
hopefully you get a real answer from someone who actually knows.


Michael Evangelista, Evangelista Design
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sachin_td wrote:
> Earlier we were using cold fusion 5 on our servers, now we need to upgrade to cold fusion 7.

[JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2]

Migrating to CF7
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/documentation/en/coldfusion/mx7/cfmx7_migrating.pdf

Updating JVM, to avoid issue with time zones
http://www.adobe.com/go/d2ab4470

[JR__Bob__Dobbs-qSBHQ2]

Be aware that the underlying CF technology was moved from a C++ codebase in CF5 to a Java codebase in CF6+.

Changes from ODBC in CF5 to JDBC in CF6+
* connection strings cannot be set as an attribute of cfquery
* named parameters cannot be used calling stored procedures with cfstoredproc, the dbvarname parameter of cfprocparam is obsolete.

COM support in Windows
Since Java is now the underlying technology COM support is not as reliable as in C++ based versions of CF.

[sachin_td]

Thanks for the link.

I will be looking forward for your support once i start this upgrading process

[Guest]

I migrated from CF5 to CF8. It was a pain in the butt and I'm still updating code and settings. The most important thing is the fact that CFMX (ver 6+) is Java and CF5 is C++ based. We had BIG problems with Visual FoxPro ODBC datasources since CF8 doesn't use the Windows ODBC drivers and CF8 doesn't have VFP drivers. I had to use a third party driver which doesn't support some native VFP functions.

Good luck and may the force be with you.

[Newsgroup_User]

sachin_td wrote:
> Can somebody provide me with all the steps required to upgrade from cold
> fusion 5 to cold fusion 7 including the issues that need to be faced during
> this process.

did your cf5 app use unicode? if so, prepare to spend some time migrating. cf5
didn't care about encoding, cf6 & above does.