Monday, July 26, 2004

ColdFusion or .NET? How about both?

This sounds rather nifty to me:

New Atlanta Communications, a leading producer of advanced server-side technologies, is pleased to announce a technology preview of BlueDragon for the Microsoft .NET Framework, the newest version of its BlueDragon product family for deploying ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) web applications, is now available for download and testing. Deployment options now range from BlueDragon Server, a standalone CFML application server, to any Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) and Microsoft .NET application server.

[ New Atlanta Corporate News ]

I did try and get the 6.0 release, standalone version, running with some code, and I had a few issues, but none that would make me question any of their claims (it was a half hearted attempt). Running on top of .NET sounds interesting, but I am curious how it works in reality. And what ability do I have to extend my code with .NET?

Anyone with a bit of extra time on their hands could feel free to research this, and let me know what you think. Really, go ahead, I won't stop you.

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Comments [5] |

Monday, July 26, 2004 2:00:52 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

How bout just .NET. I'll stick with that.

Alex

Monday, July 26, 2004 2:05:38 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

You have the budget to convert all of your legacy CF code to .NET?

Kearns

Monday, July 26, 2004 6:04:54 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Budget or not, I have the shame of CF code to motivate me.

Alex

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 12:21:59 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

There's always the technique of just leaving the CF behind altogether. My personal preference.

Bull

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:20:21 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Exactly right Bull. CF vs ASP.NET represents the Darwin effect in Coding. As the code evolves, the lesser code should simply disappear. But as is typical in our current situation, people need to develop various helper applications to this legacy code, to try to help it "evolve." Ususally it is the equivelent of the better code developing an opposable thumb while the lesser code gets an add on 3rd leg that really doesn't help it the way it should... ramlbing...

Alex

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