When you may need to refreshwsdl for calls to web services

Have you ever found that calls to web services from CF suddenly fail? when nothing has changed on your end? (No change of your CF version, no change of CF admin settings, nor any change regarding SSL/TLS on the host–all of which can cause their own problems.) What may have happened is that the owner of the web service may have changed something about their definition of that web service (in terms of methods or properties or return types). And […]

Solving problems calling out of CF via https, by updating JVM

If you’re getting errors in calling out to https urls from CF, especially if it was working and now is not, you may NOT need to import a certificate, nor modify any jvm args. You may simply need to update the JVM that CF uses, as discussed in this post.

Solved: Why won’t ColdFusion Builder accept my serial number?

To license CFBuilder, you need to put in a valid serial number. If you put in one for the wrong product (like CF) or the wrong CFB version, it will reject it as invalid, but it won’t explain why.

CF updates temporarily missing. Get them here

While CF updates are temporarily unavailable from Adobe, here’s how to get them.

Someone asked: where can I find CF training resources that are not at least a couple of years old?

Do you lament that CF training sources seem to be dated? While that may be true for some resources, it’s not for all. There is far more available than I think most people realize.

Updates available for Java 8 and 11, as of Apr 16 2019

A new set of updates to Java 8 and 11 have been released on Apr 16, 2019. Read about whether you can apply it, why you should, how to do it, and more.

April 2019 is not just tax time, it’s the end of support for CF11

This is a reminder to those still running on CF11 (from 2014) that it’s time to move off of it, to CF2016 or CF2018, as support for CF11 (public updates) end this month.

Hidden Gems in CF2018, Part 5 – Language Changes

In this part 5 of my series on CF2018 hidden gems, we focus on language changes, across a large range of categories.

Refreshed CF2018 installer includes Java 11, and more

Did you know that CF2018 has an updated installer, released in Feb 2019, which ships with Java 11 and CF2018 update 2? Read on for this and still more.

Did you know the CF2018 installer has removed the web server integration step?

The CF2018 installer has removed the step that would offer to connect to you external web server (IIS or Apache). But you CAN still get the task done, using CF’s “web server configuration” or wsconfig tool instead.

obtaining the cf2016 installer

see my comment here: Server 2016 and CF 2016

Encouraging those who share content

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