We hear a lot of talk about using individual Java objects within ColdFusion but the reality of enterprise development is that entire subsystems tend to built entirely in Java.

Software teams that serve the enterprise often build large, complex systems using Spring and Hibernate. How do you go about using ColdFusion with such systems?

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Rod explained that acquiring Covalent provides SpringSource with contributors on several Apache projects including Apache Tomcat. Why is Tomcat important? Well, more than a third of Spring users run SpringSource products on Tomcat. Tomcat use is also relatively high for paying customers of SpringSource support. The Covalent deal helps SpringSource offer customers a joint Tomcat and Spring support offering from one vendor. Rod states:
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If approved, knol will join several other trademarked terms owned by Google. Along with the company’s name, Google sought a few other trademarks this year.

Resource Shelf listed ‘knol’ and some other words to the trademark queue. These represent the search ad company’s recent, publicly discussed initiatives, like the world of mobile phone software.

Google’s trademark applications related to mobile include Android, Dalvik, and Open Handset Alliance. Android is the mobile application platform, while the Open Handset Alliance consists of those companies that have agreed to be part of Google’s plans.

Dalvik presents a more interesting concept than just a virtual machine to execute files on Android. Apache developer Stefano Mazzocchi said in November 2007 that Dalvik offered Google a break from Sun’s Java licensing schemes:

The trick is that Google doesn’t claim that Android is a Java platform, although it can run some programs written with the Java language and against some derived version of the Java class library. Not only this allows Google to avoid having to battle thru the JCP for any change to the Java ME “standard” or tolerate Sun’s unique ability to veto any JCP change, but gives users a much more ‘fresh‘ and modern class library to play with…

Google makes Android and not only unlocks development abilities on the mobile phone but also unlocks millions of potential Java mobile programmers from Sun’s grip on it.

As a custom virtual machine, Dalvik does not interfere with the usual Java development for creating class and jar files. Dalvik runs these programs, as noted.

Where Dalvik should shine is with its minimal CPU requirement. Google needed a low-power consumption benefit for Android, in order to attract developers and hardware manufacturers to the platform.

When someone creates a knol about Dalvik, we’ll look for two things. One: if someone from Google writes it. Two: if AdSense displays Sun or Java related ads in the knol (if ads are enabled for it, of course.)

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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This news follows Alfresco’s adoption of GPL licensing for the rest of its open source enterprise content management software earlier this year.

Alfresco describes Alfresco JLAN as a unique implementation of an embedded virtual file system that offers the only Java client and server implementation of Microsoft Window’s CIFS (Common Internet File System) protocol, allowing content, system administration information, and rows in a database to appear as a shared drive.

“The shared drive is the de-facto document management interface for the vast majority of computer users today,” says Alfresco.

Features and functionality included in Alfresco JLAN are:

• Only Pure Java client and server implementation — CIFS, NFS and FTP
• High Performance — Similar to the native file system
• Enterprise Authentication — NTLM, NTLMSSP, SPNEGO, Kerberos/AD
• Real-Time Access — No copy-to-local disk or conflict resolution issues
• Offline Access — Integration to Microsoft(R) briefcase

Among the customers of Alfresco JLAN customers are Sybase’s Avaki EII, Caringo, EMC Documentum and Symantec’s Veritas.

“Alfresco JLAN has allowed us to expand our OEM momentum with a simple interface and low cost open source solution, which can be embedded easily into various systems,” said John Newton, CTO, Alfresco Software.

“Today, more than 50 customers, including some of the largest software companies in the world, have already incorporated Alfresco JLAN into their products,” he added.

For those interested, Alfresco JLAN can be downloaded here.

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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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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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Neelan explained that for Interface21, the use of an open source license (Apache License 2.0), an open development model and a free product with paid support business model is about one thing, developing software. Yes, Spring is open source software, but that was a pragmatic choice. A choice born out of the market landscape at the time, not from an ideological love of all things open source.

Keeping this in mind, it shouldn’t surprise you that Interface21 announced they’d use their funding to, amongst other things:
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