ColdFusion User Survey

Adobe is running a ColdFusion User survey to understand various aspects related to ColdFusion such as product satisfaction, product usage, platform usage, purchase process, access to training resources and issues related to hiring CF developers. Adobe is working with a third party research organization to host and analyze the results from this survey. Survey will approximately take 20 mins of your time, but the detail in the survey may provide valuable insights into making the product, that you care for, […]

ColdFusion 11 Update 3 build has been updated

Update: Since this post was made, the final version of Update 3 was released and should be used instead. ColdFusion 11 Update 3 prerelease build has been updated. ColdFusion build number should be 11,0,03,292480 after applying the latest update. In order to apply this update follow the instructions given in this post. For more details refer Issues_Fixed and ReleaseNotes documents. Users who have already applied ColdFusion 11 Update 3(PreRelease build) should follow the steps below to re-apply the update: 1. […]

Which JDK is supported with ColdFusion 9, 10, and 11?

Adobe
ColdFusion sometimes supports newer versions the
Oracle Java Virtual Machine (JVM) through ColdFusion updates and hot fix
releases. This post lists the JVM version supported by recent
ColdFusion releases, depending on CF updates applied.

Adobe ColdFusion 11 Support for cfhtmltopdf (PDFg) on Linux

Many of you would like to know if ColdFusion 11 provides support for the new PDF Generation Service (cfhtmltopdf) on Linux.

Yes, we have provided support for PDFg on Linux since May 2014 shortly after the ColdFusion 11 release.

The supported Linux environments are listed in the ColdFusion system support matrix here.

Please note the additional requirements for using this feature on Linux documented here.

At this time we do not support this feature on Mac or Solaris environments.  The recommendation is to utilize the remote capability of the service installed on a supported platform.  

ColdFusion 11 Update 3 hotfix has been refreshed

Update: Since this post was made, the final version of Update 3 was released and should be used instead. ColdFusion 11 Update 3 early access build has been updated to incorporate all the suggested changes. ColdFusion build number should be 11,0,03,292245(PreRelease) after applying the latest build. For more details refer Issues_Fixed and ReleaseNotes documents. Thank you for your valuable feedback. NOTE: Users who have already applied ColdFusion 11 Update 3(PreRelease build) should follow below mentioned steps to re-apply the update: 1. Rename updates.xml […]

ColdFusion 11 Update 3 is available for early access

Update: Since this post was made, the final version of Update 3 was released and should be used instead. ColdFusion 11 Update 3 early access  build is being made available for your testing and feedback/suggestions Follow the instructions below to apply this update: 1. Navigate to ColdFusion Administrator -> Server Updates -> Updates 2. Under Settings tab, check “Automatically Check for Updates” check box 3. Change the Site URL to http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/PR/updates.xml 4. Click Submit to save your changes 5. Under Available Updates tab, […]

ColdFusion Summit 2014 Slides

Many have been asking for the ColdFusion Summit 2014 Slides.

They were posted here for reference:

http://www.slideshare.net/ColdFusionConference

Thanks Tim C. for posting these!

Improving European education with collaborative applications

Educators and students throughout Europe benefit from the technological innovations that European Schoolnet builds using Adobe ColdFusion. The consortium of 31 education ministries develops programs and projects that benefit teachers, pupils, researchers, and industry partners who share the goal of improving the quality of education in Europe. European Schoolnet serves more than 250,000 users and 25 different languages with projects like the eTwinning portal, a virtual meeting point for the exchange of information between schools. It provides all the tools […]

Win $1000!! ColdFusion 11 Mobile Application Development Contest

ColdFusion 11 provides a single platform to develop, test, and debug mobile applications in one end-to-end workflow leveraging your existing CFML skills.  

The Adobe ColdFusion Team is sponsoring a mobile application contest where the winner will receive a $1000.00 gift card prize.  More details below.  

 

Requirements:

 

  • The application must be built using the mobile feature set of ColdFusion 11
  • All entries must be received by midnight Pacific Time on December 15th, 2014.
  • All application source code needs to be uploaded to Github
  • Github repo must be public
  • No private submissions will be accepted
  • There is no specific requirement for application functionality
  • All applications need to compile to an android app and be installable
  • To submit your entry, email rakshith@adobe.com with a brief description
Good luck!! 

 

And please help us spread the word!

Resolving “500 Internal Server Error” with ColdFusion 10 Update 14

We have seen that some of you have not been able to get the web server connector working after applying update 14. We did our investigation and following is our finding. The connector binaries of ColdFusion 10 update 14 are built on top of  VC++ runtime 2012 update 4. Installation of VC++ runtime requires admin privileges. If the ColdFusion service runs as administrator or system account, the update itself install the VC++ runtime as this account would have installation privileges. […]

ColdFusion 10 support with Java 8

With Update 14 for ColdFusion 10, Java 8 is supported. If you are using ColdFusion Web services you will have to do a one-time change manually. You should copy tools.jar manually from {JDK8_Home}/lib to {cf_install_home}/cfusion/lib/. ColdFusion Web Services will fail if this is not done. Only JDK contains tools.jar not the jre. You don’t have to install JDK on the machine where ColdFusion is installed. You can just have jre 8 on this machine and get tools.jar from any other […]

Updates for ColdFusion 11, ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion 9 released

The following ColdFusion updates are now available for download: ColdFusion 11 Update 2 This update contains fixes for vulnerabilites mentioned in the security bulletin APSB14-23. For the details refer this technote. ColdFusion 10 Update 14 This update includes Tomcat upgrade to 7.0.54, Tomcat connector upgrade to 1.2.40, support for JDK 8 and Apache 2.4.x, fixes for vulnerabilites mentioned in the security bulletin APSB14-23 and fixes for 63 other bugs. For the details refer this technote. ColdFusion 9.0.2, ColdFusion 9.0.1 and ColdFusion 9.0 […]