

Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Apr 15, 2020, at 6p US Eastern time (UTC -4). The presentation will be: “To the future with cbFutures!”, with Luis Majano. (Please note that time being later in the day, compared to our more typical mid-day US meeting time.) For more on the presentation, the speaker(s), how to join the group join (free), as well as the URL for the online meeting and more, please see the meetup […]
Can we use ColdFusion 2018 in Windows 2019 Server OS?
Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Apr 8, 2020, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -4). The presentation will be: “CSS Crash Course for CSS Haters or Novices”, with Jessica Keener. For more on the presentation, the speaker(s), how to join the group join (free), as well as the URL for the online meeting and more, please see the meetup event page: https://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/events/277252125/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all 280+ previous Online […]
Have you ever wished you could confirm with 100% certainty what Java version is in use by the CF instance you are running? Or where the JVM’s location is (in case you are told to modify files related to it)? Maybe you don’t have access to the CF Admin, or aren’t sure you can trust you or a colleague are looking at the “right” CF Admin. The good news is that ColdFusion offers simple ways/variables that can show you each […]
I am trying to go from ColdFusion 11 to ColdFusion 2021 and I am having issues with the Datasource connection in the Administrator. I can verify that the datasource is working and connecting properly to my Oracle database but when I try and select the edit button I get the following error: Element urlmap.servicename is undefined in STDSN. The specific sequence of files included or processed is f:coldfusion2021/cfusion/wwwroot/administrator/datasources/oracle.cfm, line:653. When I try and open this file it shows that it […]
UPDATE TO THIS POST (on Apr 30, 2021): See Adobe’s response to this problem, discussed in a post on Apr 30, 2021. I offered a comment on what I don’t like about the currently-proposed “solution”. I leave the rest below for historical perspective. This isn’t technically “ColdFusion news” but it affects those who may want to use the Adobe ColdFusion Docker images. Since 2018, they have been hosted on the Docker registry service from JFrog called BinTray. (It was never […]
An on-going series of posts covering ColdFusion basics for new developers. This series is intended to cover basic concepts, and demonstrate how there are many ways to accomplish tasks.
We are pleased to announce that we have released the updates for the following ColdFusion versions: ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 1 ColdFusion (2018 release) Update 11 ColdFusion (2016 release) Update 17 In these updates, we’ve fixed a few security bugs and some other bugs, which are mentioned in the tech notes. In ColdFusion (2021 release), we’ve added activation and deactivation of Virtual core licenses. In addition, we’ve introduced support for RHEL 8.3, WildFly 23, Tomcat 9.0.43, PostgreSQL 13, Oracle 19c […]
Users who require the MySQL Connector/J should avoid 8.0.23 as it breaks date values returned in queries. Stick with 8.0.22 for now.
ColdFusion Developers, do you want a first hand look at publishing APIs securely and at scale? Then mark your calendars for Brian Sappey’s upcoming webinars! This seven-part series will give you a 360 degree view of the API Manager and teach you how to build RESTful APIs with Adobe ColdFusion. Everything from securing, publishing and monitoring APIs, will be covered with hands-on examples, and easy discussions. Register now for the webinar series here. Here are the series topics: Topic: Introduction […]
Does anyone know when first update to 2021 is coming out? We are planning upgrades to quite a few servers and there is a hangup with 2021 and Coldbox that we need to resolve prior to. Since these things get planned out in advance our server team needs a sign-off that all is well and I can’t do that until I can confirm 2021 works with Coldbox, which today it does not. My understanding is the first update will fix […]