Comments on: To .WAR or not to .WAR? http://www.tntechnohermit.com/2009/02/15/to-war-or-not-to-war/ Random Thoughts of a Techno-Hermit Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:07:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Damon http://www.tntechnohermit.com/2009/02/15/to-war-or-not-to-war/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Damon Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:50:01 +0000 http://dan.skaggsfamily.ws/?p=138#comment-220 You can create a WAR file that only contains only CFML files (plus a WEB-INF folder with a very small web.xml file). However, if your WAR file does not contain a CFML engine (CF, Railo, or OBD), you'll have to know which CFML engine to specify (in your web.xml file, servlet sections), and that CFML engine will need to be available to the Java container. For what its worth, I work as a web application engineer for a hospital, and I would like to see more consulting companies deliver their CF apps as WAR files. You can create a WAR file that only contains only CFML files (plus a WEB-INF folder with a very small web.xml file). However, if your WAR file does not contain a CFML engine (CF, Railo, or OBD), you’ll have to know which CFML engine to specify (in your web.xml file, servlet sections), and that CFML engine will need to be available to the Java container.

For what its worth, I work as a web application engineer for a hospital, and I would like to see more consulting companies deliver their CF apps as WAR files.

]]> By: Dan Skaggs http://www.tntechnohermit.com/2009/02/15/to-war-or-not-to-war/comment-page-1/#comment-170 Dan Skaggs Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:30:58 +0000 http://dan.skaggsfamily.ws/?p=138#comment-170 @Doug - That's a great point about the EULA and certainly something that you'd have to worry about if you were distributing a product. What I was thinking when I wrote the post was more along the lines of packaging your app up as a WAR in order to move it through the Dev/QA/Production environments. On the subject of Geronimo, I've not done any work with it, but just this week got my development environment running completely on Tomcat. I can now deploy my CF code to CF7, CF8, Railo or OpenBD all running under the same Tomcat instance. I've got just one more little thing to figure out (how to selectively start/stop individual Tomcat virtual hosts) and then I think I'm done. As for ColdFusion's CAR feature, I've started doing a fair bit of development on Railo lately and (to the best of my knowledge) it doesn't support the .CAR feature like Adobe ColdFusion does. Honestly, I never used the feature when I was dealing solely with Adobe ColdFusion either. @Doug – That’s a great point about the EULA and certainly something that you’d have to worry about if you were distributing a product. What I was thinking when I wrote the post was more along the lines of packaging your app up as a WAR in order to move it through the Dev/QA/Production environments.

On the subject of Geronimo, I’ve not done any work with it, but just this week got my development environment running completely on Tomcat. I can now deploy my CF code to CF7, CF8, Railo or OpenBD all running under the same Tomcat instance. I’ve got just one more little thing to figure out (how to selectively start/stop individual Tomcat virtual hosts) and then I think I’m done.

As for ColdFusion’s CAR feature, I’ve started doing a fair bit of development on Railo lately and (to the best of my knowledge) it doesn’t support the .CAR feature like Adobe ColdFusion does. Honestly, I never used the feature when I was dealing solely with Adobe ColdFusion either.

]]> By: Douglas Knudsen http://www.tntechnohermit.com/2009/02/15/to-war-or-not-to-war/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Douglas Knudsen Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:10:51 +0000 http://dan.skaggsfamily.ws/?p=138#comment-169 Getting ready to play with trying to get CF running under Geronimo here actually...anyone done that yet? Anyhoo, distributing your CF app as a WAR with the CF, Railo, etc engine might have to be cleared against the EULA. But, this got me thinking, can you wrap just the CF code and assets into a WAR? While essentially a zip, a WAR has a few other bits in it and a specific folder structure, can this be leverage to distribute the code, eh? Since we are thinking aloud here, why not just use the CF Archive feature? You can add code and assets and CFAdmin settings into a CAR file and pass it around easy cheesy, eh? DK Getting ready to play with trying to get CF running under Geronimo here actually…anyone done that yet?

Anyhoo, distributing your CF app as a WAR with the CF, Railo, etc engine might have to be cleared against the EULA. But, this got me thinking, can you wrap just the CF code and assets into a WAR? While essentially a zip, a WAR has a few other bits in it and a specific folder structure, can this be leverage to distribute the code, eh? Since we are thinking aloud here, why not just use the CF Archive feature? You can add code and assets and CFAdmin settings into a CAR file and pass it around easy cheesy, eh?

DK

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