See my comments inline:
On 13 Sep 2012, at 10:29, Hendrik Kramer <hendrik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I really would like to see in the future is a better integration of the Apache POI library. It could also be as a plugin, and cfspreadsheet is a start, but creating, reading and handling PDF/Word/Excel and OpenOffice files the easy way would be highly appreciated.
Makes sense, and to me, it sounds like a great project for people to get involved in extending the cfspreadsheet extension! Check it out and extend it!
https://github.com/andyj/RailoExtensionProvider
>
> Some other things I would like to see:
> - Integration of a mailserver, so we could better track delayed email delivery bounces
Makes total sense, so it's all integrated. Security would be an issue, so you don't become a relay but something like James could be added:
http://james.apache.org/server/
> - New Coldfusion Template files that are allowed to handle only a specific subset of tags ( cfoutput/cfloop/cfif and custom tags maybe )
For views you mean? somethign like an .rt (railo template) compared to a .rct (Railo Class Template or something) ?
> - Native support for NoSQL databases (we use cfmongodb here, but a native approach would be great)
I have been looking at OrientDB http://www.orientdb.org/index.htm which does both graphs and documents.
> - cfargument type "integer" beside "Numeric/Number" (to circumvent special tests)
Then would you have double and float too?
> - Easier creation and managing of archives for deployment
Like creating WAR files for example?
> - Git integration ( to pull and install new releases from the PROD branch ) would be cool
Integration into Railo as a language feature or a way for getting the nightlies (not part of the product but more part of the process?)
> - htmlunformat (parses html to normal text including html entities)
Maybe also Markdown processors or something? We already have XMLParse and HTMLParse by the way :) So you could do an XSLT on it and release it as an extension?
> - new functions to return false on functions like len() and isNumeric() etc. even when the value is not available (NULL) instead of throwing an error. Makes it easier for xml parsing.
Not sure on this one, but sure, this sounds like a bug? rather than a feature :)
Why?
> We provide some SOAP webservices and "numberOfAdultsPerRoom" is
> returned as Double/Float in the WSDL which is a bit strange of course.
So do you care more about returning sensible types to WSDL?
Perhaps a wsdl:type or remote:type attribute that overrides the normal
type when used as a webservice would be useful?
My 0.02...- Better documentation. As the docs are right now, it's a bit embarrassing compared to other languages/servers. As the "Railo group" is maturing, so should the documentation.- Centralized knowledge base like the Adobe Devnet, purely for Railo. By centralizing helpful samples and articles, it can help boost the adoption of Railo.
- More event gateways out of the box (messaging, socket, wowza media server, Amazon SQS to name a few)
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One addition one of our clients would like to have is with Scheduled Tasks.
Here one can define an output file. It would be nice to add an append function with a rollover after a certain size or time.
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I know there was/is CFQuickDocs or something like that out there which seems to have their own copy of the CF docs, and that's been around for years and years. I always wondered how they were allowed to do that (or even if they were allowed to do it)... but it perhaps suggests that it's been that way for a while!
- htmlunformat (parses html to normal text including html entities)
valueList() function:
Ajax Libraries:
ColdFusion Administrator:
- also need a flag that can be set to ‘developer’ so that it just queues those emails in a folder called ‘dev’ on same level as spool and undelivr and expose the directory through the admin api so that it can be read programically (as well as a basic ajax reader in the cfadmin that can read html and text versions of the messagesApplication-Based Settings
Application-Specific Settings:
Generally:
While I'm all for moving forward with CF I'm not sure I understand exactly how CF and CFML are much different. Someone mentioned we won't need CFML at some point. Maybe that could be explained to me.
ColdFusion is hands down the easiest language to start with for web development and it needs to remain compatible with the idea of "less effort" or less learning curve. That doesn't mean we dummy it down till you make it hard to do advanced things, just that we keep in mind what makes a language successful...USERS!
We also need to be a supportive community of developers by being patient with new ideas or new developers. I've found that there are a few REALLY helpful people in the community, but there are plenty wounded programmers out there who like to crap on novice mistakes and talk over people's heads. That being said, I have heard from new CF developers that our community is outstanding compared to others, I just think we can do better.
Personally I love tags. I use tag more then cfscript. But I don't have a problem with cfscript. Now before everyone jumps on me for being some HTML fan boy. I started programming in 1980. I know 20+ languages to include a few versions of Assembler. So I have a classic programming background but I find the tag part of CFML very fun to use. So before we shoot CFML make sure that its users what it to be shot.
Andrew Penhorwood
On Monday, September 17, 2012 1:45:07 PM UTC-4, Stefan wrote:
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> there's no other sort of ColdFusion other than Adobe's one
Except, in the eyes of many, Railo is ColdFusion and OpenBD is ColdFusion, and for an even larger/overlapping bunch CFML is ColdFusion
They're wrong/inaccurate of course, but they still exist (as evidenced above), so I feel it's useful to be extra clear in some situations.
> I have a CF blog, but I am not a big name
I dunno, five syllables seems pretty big. ;o)
A nice feature is to be able to integrate railo with Spring and use CFML as the view layer.
It is currently in beta but it is an extension that you can get from our preview providers (under the Server Administrator)They will be commercial extensions when released
Take a look at this page in the docs:
https://github.com/getrailo/railo/wiki/Railo-server-compared-with-Java
It gives comparisons between Railo and Java techniques, and lists some of the pros and cons of each.
For some background information and a description of what Railo is, look here:
https://github.com/getrailo/railo/wiki/Getting-to-know-Railo-Server
Hope that's of use!
James
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