Some-a people out there in our nation don’t have that, and I believe RIA, like, such as in Flash and Silverlight everywhere, should help the US, or should help Adobe, and should help India, and should help Sun so that we’re able to build up RIA.

I was willing to brush it aside as another harmless mistake by some high profile sites, “we all make mistakes”. However, Mrinal’s second tweet (Mrinal’s articles are here and here) got me thinking and wanted to bring forth some clarifications for the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) realm.

ZDNet

Recently, Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet wrote an article — Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition from Sun. While talking about JavaOne where Sun unveils their future cloud-computing platform — Hydrazine — which will be in direct competition with similar offerings from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others, she wrote

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Some people have been noticing dramatically slower application startup times on ColdFusion 8 compared to ColdFusion MX 7.

I’ve seen a lot of complaints about shared hosting systems where applications timeout.

Since CF8 is so much faster than CFMX7, you might wonder why application startup times can be so much worse.

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The latest version of GlassFish, the open source Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 application server, arrived with clustering support and faster performance.

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I just got a brand new Mac Pro and I spent most of the day installing stuff, but the next day I was trying to get a little work done… I ran into a problem when trying to invoke web services on CF8 - it threw the following error:

coldfusion.jsp.JavaCompiler$UnknownCompiler: Unable to run the internal Java compiler: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/tools/StandardJavaFileManager.

I setup the following test code using Doug Hughes’ Fortune web service, to make sure it wasn’t just the service I was trying to call:

<cfset ws = CreateObject("webservice", "http://www.doughughes.net/WebServices/fortune/fortune.cfc?wsdl")>
<cfset f = ws.getTopicsList()>
<cfdump var="#f#">

After searching google, all I could find were a few other people with the same problem and no solution. I found that the StandardJavaFileManager class (the one it can’t find) is part of Java 6 - I was running Java 1.5, and I know that on Windows CF8 ships with Java 1.6. I pinged Sean Corfield to see if he had experienced these problems. He said, no but he is already running Java 6 (which helped me confirm that was indeed the problem). He also helped me figure out step 3.

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One of the handy new features in ColdFusion 8 is that CFC’s are now serializable.

There isn’t a whole lot of information about this new feature in the docs, but I did some playing around and it does appear that they have used Java’s serialization API. This means that you can use java’s java.io.ObjectOutputStream to serialize your CFC’s…
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