This is one of the most common error when it comes to make calls to https url’s with <cfhttp. A lot of articles are out there explaining how to install SSL certificate with keytool. But again its not very easy for everyone to understand. Best way to do it is using certman (CF admin) plugin, which was available on https://certman.riaforge.org/ but since its been taken down it was no where to be found. I recently found it in https://github.com/cfmaniac GIT repo […]
CF2021 introduces integration with Azure Blob, Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Operations such as Creating containers, Deleting container, Uploading File, Downloading File, Block Upload, Shared Access Signature are supported.
ColdFusion (2021 release) introduces an entirely new install experience, with a lightweight zip install option. Since it packages only the core CF2021 modules and has a trimmed down JDK, the zip is less than 150 MB, and both deployment and server startup time have been reduced significantly, compared to the full/GUI installer (which is still available).
This post talks about the new language feature introduced in ColdFusion 2021 , “Iterator Support”
CF2021 introduces integration with Amazon S3, a cloud storage service where you can store and retrieve objects. Operations such as Creating buckets, Deleting Buckets, Uploading File, Downloading File, Object Locking, Bulk Upload are supported.
Join us, Online CF Meetup, Dec 10: “Using CommandBox CLI to manage all your servers”, with Brad Wood
Come join us at the Online ColdFusion Meetup session on Thursday, Dec 10, 2020, at 12p US Eastern time (UTC -5). The presentation will be: “Using CommandBox CLI to manage all your servers”, with Brad Wood For more on the presentation, the speaker, 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/274974315/ The meeting will be recorded, as have been all 270+ previous Online CFMeetup […]
This is the second of a series of posts, on Azure Service Bus integration with ColdFusion. In this post we will talk about how to use Topics in CF2021. Topics are used for one to many transfer of messages in a publish/subscribe scenario. You may refer this document for more on the subject. The following example demonstrates how to create a topic, publish messages to the created topic and subscribe to it. For the prerequisites to this exercise please refer my previous blog post on Service […]
Hi CFNext users, Please go through previous blog, if you haven’t gone through. This post is about covering few more frequent operations on SQS using CF2021, which directly integrates cloud services into language. 4. Get Queue Url: You require the queue URL to send, receive, and delete queue messages The following example query request gets the URL for the specified queue. stdQueueUrl = stdQueue.getQueueUrl(); 5. Send a message to a queue: The following example shows sending a message to an existing queue sendMessageMetadata = { “messageBody”=”Send Message to ColdFusion […]
Dynamic case values – From now on, we will be supporting dynamic case values. Characteristics – 1. Both script and tag syntax supported. 2. Types of values allowed – a. Function calls b. Varialbe Reference c. Arithematic operators like +/- d. Boolean operators like NOT/AND e. Decision operators like CONTAINS/IS EQUAL f. Ternary operator like (a GT b)? a : b Scopes
______________________________________________________________________________This is a blog about the new feature in ColdFusion. You can now integrate it with MongoDB, a NoSQL database.Introduction NoSQL databases (aka “not only SQL”) are non tabular, and store data differently than relational tables. NoSQL databases come in a variety of types based on their data model. The main types are document, key-value, wide-column, and graph. They provide flexible schemas and scale easily with large amounts of data and high user loads. MongoDB is a cross-platform document-based NoSQL […]
CFNext introduces integration with Microsoft Azure Service Bus, a managed message brokering service that enables decoupling of applications by allowing asynchronous transfer of data and state. The integration with messaging service falls into the following 2 categories: Queues: provides a buffer in the form of a queue for one to one transfer of messages between a sender and a receiver. Topics: can be used to transfer messages in a publish/subscribe scenario. In this post, which is the first of a […]
Hi CFNext users, I will be covering AWS SQS integration with ColdFusion. This post mostly revolves around below items: AWS SQS usecase Setting AWS credentials Create Queue Setting Queue Attributes Send, Receive and Delete messages Purge and Delete Queue. Prerequisite: CFNext, AWS account with an access key ID and a secret access key. SQS described as per Amazon AWS: “Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and […]

