Announcing the new ColdFusion Community Portal

  Here’s the all new ColdFusion Community portal launched by Adobe : http://coldfusion.adobe.com The community portal is one centralized access point for information on the latest in ColdFusion. It also provides our partners and consultants to showcase their capabilities and latest innovations with the platform. It is also a User Group hub where ColdFusion developers can find information related to various User Groups and their events. We are pleased to announce the launch of ColdFusion Community portal with the aim […]

Unable to re-install ColdFusion Builder 2.0.1

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ColdFusion Builder Usage Survey

  Here is a survey to understand the usage of ColdFusion Builder as an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for developing ColdFusion applications.   The information gathered here will help Adobe prioritize on areas that need focus or improvement to keep up with the changing needs of ColdFusion developers.   Thanks for your time to respond to this survey.  

How to download and install ColdFusion 10 Hotfix directly?

You can download the hotfix directly from the following URL (This example assumes that you want to download Hotfix 8)http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/hotfix_008.jar Similarly, for update 10, it is as follows: http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/hotfix_010.jar If you want to download earlier/newer hotfixes replace the jar path in the above URL with the hotfix number that you want. Ex:- http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/hotfix_00<HFNumber>.jar Download/Copy this hotfix_008.jar to a any directory on your machine where you want to maintain repository of Hotfix installers. And then open the command prompt (with Run […]

JRun End of Sale post April 2013

Adobe JRun will no longer be available for purchase post April 2013. Adobe will continue to fulfill its obligations under existing maintenance contracts through the term of such contracts. ColdFusion 9, however will continue to be under core support from Adobe. Here’s the link to the updated JRun product page and FAQ page on adobe.com.     

Pre-release for ColdFusion Splendor

Here’s some exciting news about ColdFusion Splendor. We will soon have pre-release open for Adobe ColdFusion Splendor, next major version of ColdFusion server and ColdFusion Builder Thunder, next major version of ColdFusion Builder. This time we will have a single pre-release program for both Builder and Server.  If you are interested in being a part of the pre-release, do take this survey linked here. Please realize that participating in this survey does not guarantee a pre-release invite. The plan is […]

How to resolve ColdFusion 10 configuration issues with IIS 8 on Windows 2012 Server

Are you getting the following error when configuring the IIS8 connector for CF10 on Windows Server 2012 or Windows 8? “Version 8.0 is installed. Supported versions are 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7x” We have some additional guidance that should help you work around it. 1) Please make sure that you are using correct Windows 2012 Server/Windows 8 supported ColdFusion 10 installer (The updated full ColdFusion 10 Installers) MD5s of the full installer should be as follows: For Win 64-bit MD5 –> […]

JSON backward Compatibility: Flag to enable CF8 behavior

JSON serialization was introduced in CF8 for the first time. It was used heavily to serialize CFC and other CF data objects. In “CumulativeHotfix1 for ColdFusion 9.0.1”, some of its outstanding issues were fixed. Few of issues addressed in hotfix were that of string to number conversion, and number getting converted to double. The change in behavior of JSON serialization, which fixed some of the basic problems of CF developer at one hand, also had a side effect of breaking old […]

ColdFusion 10 on AWS Marketplace

  I am excited to post about the new Amazon EC2 offering on AWS Marketplace for ColdFusion 10. You can now buy ColdFusion AMI (ColdFusion Enterprise Amazon Machine Image) from AWS Marketplace at an hourly based pricing:   Large Instance: $0.15/hr X-Large Instance: $0.30/hr It is available on both Windows 2008 R2 and Ubuntu 12.0.4. You are also entitled to get support from Adobe and all you are required to do is send an email to the Adobe support (CFSup@adobe.com) […]

jpedal.jar for ColdFusion 9.0.1 Cumulative Hotfix 4

Below tech note for ColdFusion 9.0.1 Cumulative Hotfix 4  has been updated with instructions for jpedal.jar. http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/cumulative-hotfix-4-coldfusion-901.html How does this affect you: If your ColdFusion server was not patched with Cumulative Hotfix 2 prior to applying Cumulative Hotfix 4, you would need to download the JPedal.zip file. See the above tech note link for more details. If your ColdFusion server was already patched with Cumulative Hotfix 2 before you applied Cumulative Hotfix 4, you already have the correct file and […]

JRE should be used or JDK should be used with ColdFusion 10 ?

There is a bit of confusion whether to use JRE or JDK with ColdFusion when you want to use an externally installed one. This blog entry clarifies on whether to use jre7 or jdk7. Note:Unless there is a specific reason, it is generally recommended to use the latest patched JRE/JDK of major Java version supported. As of 8th March 2013, for Java 1.7 the latest patched version is Java 1.7 Update 17. The decision on whether JRE or JDK should […]

New CHFs for CF 9 and CF 9.0.1

We now have new CHFs available for ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion 9.0.1. This CHFs will address the issues that were present in the previous CHFs. We recomend that you apply this update to your ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion 9.0.1 installations. Here are the links to the related techotes for CF 9 and CF 9.0.1. For ColdFusion 10 and ColdFusion 9.0.2 the updates have been refreshed to fix an issue with the Google Map API and the related technotes can be […]