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Where can I find ColdFusion_2018_WWEJ_java.jar ?

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In the installation documentation there is reference to installing CF on Unix (Other) by using ColdFusion_2018_WWEJ_java.jar but I can't seem to find that installer file.

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    Charlie Arehart
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    Charlie ArehartCommunity Expert
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    March 24, 2020

    Do you notice on the page that the sentence referring to that starts with: "If you are deploying the JEE configuration on a platform other than Linux or Solaris, use the ColdFusion_2018_WWEJ_java.jar."

     

    So first, you have said you are on Unix, and so the second bolded point applies.

     

    But are you really "deploying the JEE configuration"? I'll clarify for readers that that is about deploying CF on some other app server (like weblogic, websphere, jetty, etc.) That's a pretty rare implementation approach, though it is indeed supported.

     

    Finally, if you really ARE wanting to deploy CF that way, can you clarify if you are saying that you found that once you went to the CF download feature (where you login, and fill out the form asking lots of questions) that then the resulting drop-down appeared and you picked Unix? If so, did you happen to notice what file WAS available to download at that point? And did you try it, even if not the same name as the doc?

    /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
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    another_adminAuthor
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    March 24, 2020

    Yes Charlie, and thank you for responding. The target system is FreeBSD running WildFly as the app server. I was on that page, which lead me to this https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/installing/installing-the-jee-configuration.html. That, in turn, lead me right back where I started.

     

    My initial search for a download was through the Adobe Licensing site which only provides the standard issue Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris installers.

     

    The form that asks a bunch of questions, I assumed was the same as far as Developer or Free Trial. However, as usual with assumptions...only the Free Trial option gives the dropdown , where the Developer download automatically tosses me a win64 installer. The dropdown does not have a Java only or Unix (other) option. Only Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris and then the Japanese versions of those four.

     

     

    Charlie Arehart
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    Charlie ArehartCommunity Expert
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    March 25, 2020

    I think I'll give that a shot and see where it goes. As suggested, I contacted cfinstal this morning and I'm not filled with confidence with the response after being pointed to Java JRE installers when asking for the CF java installation jar. Further clarifying my intention they asked if it was to be a standalone or WAR deployment, figuring the only option is a WAR deploy, they directed me here

     

    https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/coldfusion2018-support-matrix.pdf

     

    Which seems to indicate the option to run the installer on another OS to generate the ear/war file and try to deploy that way.

     

     


    As for their replying ultimately by pointing you to that PDF, it could be because you mentioned a specific wildfly version, and that page clarifies how CF 2018 supports only v14. Or perhaps you mentioned freebsd, and that page clarifies that CF only "supports" (offers installers for) the listed variants of Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris (the point I was getting at in my previous reply).

     

    Without seeing specifically what you said and their reply, I don't know why they'd not address specifically: "where is that jar that the doc points to?", which was your intial question. But if you mentioned freebsd, their defaulting to the support matrix would be somewhat understandable.

     

    Again, if you let go any hope of running the CF installer on freebsd, and instead run it elsewhere, that installer will offer an option to create the CF ear or war (there is no current provision to "just get that"), and then if you run that (on bsd or really any version of wildfly, on any os), it may just work. The ear/war is self-contained, and as far asa I know OS-agnostic. I can't say with certainty.

     

    But this is again a very low-use scenario (deploying CF as a war/ear), so you may find relatively little on it, and few who can help. (It's been several years since I last did it, but I may still be able to help here, or via direct consulting if that may interest you.)

    /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
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