Railo 4.0 - MuraCon Presentations

Railo 4(ever)!
Gert Franz
Railo Ltd.

Railo – Gert Franz

• MD of The Railo Company, London
• Studied Astrophysics in Munich
• Involved in Railo since day 1
• Expert in performance tuning
• I live in Switzerland
• Into CFML since 1999
• Basic Assembler Clipper Delphi
Java SQL ColdFusion Railo

MuraCON – Washington - 2012 Gert Franz– Railo Ltd.

Railo downloads

70K Downloads/Updates since October 2011
Avg. 6-7000 / month

New Developers

36%

64%

New to CFML Existing


Railo 3.3 – Book!
• Getting Started
• Installation
• AJAX & CFVIDEO
• Extending Railo Server
• Resources
• and more!
• More books coming soon


Railo is Growing
But is it enough?

Things YOU want
• Guarantee of CFML’s Future
• World Class Support & Consultancy
• Awesome Engine
• Documentation/Training
• Business Friendly Open Source
• Commercial License
• Features!!!

How can Railo do this?

• Healthy Company
• Vital Community
• New Members
• Great Marketing


The Railo Company
• Railo Technologies (CH, UK, US)
becomes The Railo Company
• New Investors
• World-wide involvement
• Strong backers, without brand
hinderance


The Railo Company
• Gruppo Tesi (Italy)
• Aurel & Co. (France)
• Prisma IT (Netherlands)
• TagNile (Finland)
• BlueRiver (US) – MURA
• And of course: Railo Technologies


Technical Development
Advisory Board (TDAB)

“Group of professional
consultants to drive the
direction of Railo Server”

Railo Academy
• Training/Certification
• Documentation
• Events
• Central resource for CFML


In Summary...
• CFML is HERE TO STAY
• We are MARKETING it
• We are SUPPORTING it
• We are DEVELOPING it
• For the next 10 years and more


Railo 4.0

• Over 110 new features since Railo 3.3
• Over 400 bugfixes
• 14 releases
• Avg. bug fix time: 3 days


Days between releases
20

15.8
15

12.4

10.2
10 9.6

6.5

5

0
Railo 3.0 Railo 3.1 Railo 3.2 Railo 3.3 Railo 4.0


Railo 4.0 release plan

• Currently public Beta 2
• Release candidate – Next week
• Final release – November 2012
• Railo unleashed – December 2012


Further releases planned

• Railo 5.0 – Winter 2013
• We have concrete ideas for Railo
5.0
• Roadmap will be developed after
the Railo 4.0 release
• Railo 6.0 – Winter 2014


Railo 4.0 Beta

• Compatibility
• Developer Features / Tools
• Core Engine Improvements
• Business features
• Command Line


Compatibility

• Closures
• REST web services
• Security – ESAPI encoding
• Java integration
• Charting / HTML5


Compatibility

• AND LONG AWAITED:
• CFBEER


Syntax changes

• Loop collection index item
• Tag usage in cfscript
• Method chaining
• Annotations
• Multiple assignments


Developer Features / Tools

• Lazy query

<cfquery name="getSomething" lazy="true" ...>
Select * From customers
</cfquery>

<cfloop query="getSomething" maxrows="100">
#getSomething.name#
</cfloop>

This will get the results only if needed!


Syntax changes

• Member functions
• Cached functions
• For/In loops
• Mid(string, start, [len])
• Closures (work inside tags as well)
• GetTickCount("nano|micro")


• Extended debugging features
• Execution time now in nanoseconds
• IP Range definition
• Debugging console
• Query, scope usage



• Hands on debugging
• Setting up debugging
• Set debugging options
• Output options
• Templates
• Offline debugging



• CodeMetrix
• Analyze slow code fragments
• Shows code coverage

• Output inspection


CodeMetrix


Business Features

• Railo 4.0 offers all different kinds of
monitors
• Memory monitor
• Scope monitor
• Query Monitor
• All different kinds of query stats


Business Features

• New admin design
• jQuery based
• Different new options
• Timezone definitions for datasources
• Maintain key case for structs (JSON)
• New debugging options


Railo – CLI

• CLI is a different approach to CFM
• Usually CFM involves HTTP protocol
• Web server
• Application server
• Browser


Railo – CLI

• With CLI this changes completely
• No
• HTTP
• Web server
• Application server
• Browser


Basic idea

• Use Railo on a server wherever you
like
• Command line
• From within Java
• Other programming languages


Basic idea

• New concept to use CFML for all
your tasks


Command Line

• Allows calling Railo via command line
• Useful for batch processing
• Generate PDF documents
• Initialize Applications
• Compile applications
• Deployment


Command Line

• Hands on CLI
• Execute a call on a local .cfm file
• Manipulate some images
• Generate a pdf
• Send the pdf by email to a client
• Log everything
• All this written in CFM (no app- or
webserver)

Tighter integration with Java

• <cfscript language="Java">
• <cfcomponent extendsjava="…">
• Java reflection
• Railo runtime class for Java


Railo 4 in the Cloud

• Session scope clustered
• Application scope clustered
• Server Scope clustered
• Support for additional Cache
Engines
• Images on all major Cloud providers

Railo commercial license

• Will contain
• all extensions provided by Railo Ltd.
• code profiler
• installation support
• discounts for tickets
• Railo book
• discount for consulting
• Release December 1 2012 st


Questions?

• More information
• Railo Server – www.getrailo.org
• Railo Technologies – www.getrailo.com
• Contact – support@getrailo.com
• Wiki – wiki.getrailo.org


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