BlueDragon Blog
Here you'll find tips and information about making the most of BlueDragon, which offers several compelling implementation alternatives for your CFML applications. This blog was created originally by Charlie Arehart, who was New Atlanta CTO from 2003-2006.,He has since moved on to become an independent consultant but continues to answer comments raised in existing blog entries. BlueDragon continues, and you should look to the newer BlueDragon blog, from New Atlanta president, Vince Bonfanti, for more updated information.

FAQ: What is BlueDragon

« H E FAQs :: Charlie Arehart :: email
posted Friday, 5 December 2003

People who've never heard of BlueDragon before (or haven't looked at it in a while) could benefit from a concise clarification:

BlueDragon is a family of products for deploying ColdFusion® Markup Language (CFML) web applications onto the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Microsoft .NET platforms, or as a standalone server.

With BlueDragon, organizations have a choice of products, each of which will natively integrate CFML with their strategic technology platform of choice: BlueDragon Server, BlueDragon Server JX, BlueDragon for J2EE Application Servers or BlueDragon for .NET.

With the release of BlueDragon 6.1, all BlueDragon products are compatible with Macromedia ColdFusion MX 6.1, subject to differences outlined in our Compatibility Guide.

All BlueDragon versions utilize a highly optimized, high-performance caching architecture that delivers consistent "in-memory" page rendering performance and scalability. BlueDragon also includes an intuitive administrative interface that simplifies the configuration and deployment of CFML.

  • BlueDragon Server is a standalone CFML application server implemented in Java that is a free alternative for deploying CFML applications. Its architecture is based on New Atlanta's award-winning, standards-based ServletExec® web application server.
  • BlueDragon Server JX adds additional functionality to BlueDragon 6.1 Server, including J2EE session management, support for Java CFX tags and the ability to deploy hybrid CFML/JSP web applications. BlueDragon 6.1 Server JX also includes JTurbo®, New Atlanta's J2EE-certified driver for Microsoft SQL Server. Additional drivers to other popular database systems like Oracle are also included.
  • BlueDragon for J2EE Application Servers is a CFML runtime module that can be packaged within a standard J2EE application component. These compact and portable archives allow CFML to be deployed on any standard J2EE application server platform:
    • without source code modification;
    • without revealing intellectual property;
    • without installing an additional server.
  • BlueDragon for .NET (Coming Soon!) will provide for native integration and deployment of CFML on the Microsoft .NET platform. BlueDragon for .NET will offer native hi-performance integration with COM, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C# and Visual Basic.NET.

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