ColdFusion Makes Speed, Control Gains

 
May 28, 2001
eWeek's Timothy Dyck reports on their testing of ColdFusion 5 . He notes "provides some innovative but incremental changes ? [mostly] administrative updates (such as reporting and monitoring tools that go further than what any other script-based application server provides) or under-the-hood engineering such as performance tuning." The most interesting change, he feels "isn't what ColdFusion 5 is but what it will become. When Macromedia briefed us about this release, we finally got official confirmation of what we've anticipated for some time: ColdFusion 6 will be a Java-based application server.

"Specifically, Macromedia is reimplementing the ColdFusion language as JavaServer Page tags. As a result, ColdFusion pages will compile to Java servlets, and ColdFusion users will be able to freely mix and match Java with ColdFusion."

In a perhaps more controversial comment, Mr. Dyck feels that the inclusion of Java "addresses the biggest negative of ColdFusion for enterprise development?lack of any language scalability to large projects. ColdFusion physically scales well through its support for server clustering, but developing large applications with reusable, modular objects in ColdFusion tags is a sticky proposition." Many of our readers would disagree with this conclusion, and there are many articles to be found which refute this rather conclusively, here at Fusion Authority, at our sister site, House of Fusion, and at Allaire.com, among others.

ColdFusion Makes Speed, Control Gains (ZDNet Tech InfoBase / eWeek, May 27, 2001)
ColdFusion Makes Speed, Control Gains (Hoover News Alert / eWeek, May 27, 2001)


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