Tim Buntel

Wouldn't it be nice to get all the high-availability and scalability benefits of a cluster of multiple servers without the need to purchase multiple machines? How about being able to manage a number of isolated, performance tuned applications on one piece of hardware instead of taking up many machines in your server room? ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition introduces the new Enterprise Manager, which will do those things and more. It makes load balancing, application isolation, and deployment management as easy as creating a datasource in the ColdFusion Administrator. In this article, we'll introduce you to the Enterprise Manager and explain how it will make managing and deploying ColdFusion applications easier and more powerful than ever before. Background Before ColdFusion 4.0, no high availability (HA) features were built into ColdFusion. One could use a hardware... (more)

Solve Key Limitations With ColdFusion MX 7 Administrator API

The ColdFusion Administrator is an extremely powerful and easy-to-use Web-based interface for managing your ColdFusion environment. It provides scores of pages to configure data sources, server settings, Web services, logging and debugging, and more. Pretty much any aspect of your ColdFusion server can be controlled and configured by the administrator. That's a great feature of ColdFusion, but it does present some problems. In developing ColdFusion MX 7, we contemplated the challenges associated with providing a single way to administer the server and, as a result, decided to i... (more)

Creating Custom ColdFusion tags as DHTML Wrappers

On the one hand DHTML — the combination of HTML, stylesheets and JavaScript — has given us many new options to create low-bandwidth effects to enhance Web pages. And on the other ColdFusion has given us the power to bring database contents to the Web. What's best for us, then, if we want interactive, site-enhancing effects that are data-driven? A combination of the two, of course! But it's never quite that simple.... This is especially true since DHTML has been implemented differently in Netscape and Microsoft browsers. Pages are often cluttered with a combination of ColdFusion... (more)

Introducing the ColdFusion Enterprise Manager

Wouldn't it be nice to get all the high-availability and scalability benefits of a cluster of multiple servers without the need to purchase multiple machines? How about being able to manage a number of isolated, performance tuned applications on one piece of hardware instead of taking up many machines in your server room? ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition introduces the new Enterprise Manager, which will do those things and more. It makes load balancing, application isolation, and deployment management as easy as creating a datasource in the ColdFusion Administrator. In this ar... (more)

CFMX 7: "This Is the Release That Will Make You a Hero Again," Says Macromedia's Tim Buntel

CFMX 7 New Features In this exclusive "sneak preview" from the new monthly CFMX 7 column in SYS-CON Media's ColdFusion Developer's Journal written by the development and QA engineers who actually built the new release,  Macromedia's Tim Buntel writes:    I get excited every time we release a new version of ColdFusion.  I usually hit the road and talk about the release to customers at their companies, user group events, and conferences.  I start the conversation by saying, "This is the best ColdFusion ev... (more)