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BlueDragon.NET "Technology Preview" Release

« H E BlueDragon Evangelism :: Charlie Arehart :: email
posted Wednesday, 14 July 2004

New Atlanta is pleased to announce the Technology Preview release of BlueDragon for the Microsoft .NET Framework, which is now available for download: http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm

BlueDragon.NET enables the Microsoft .NET Framework and the IIS web server to process CFML pages alongside ASP.NET pages and web services (.aspx and .asmx files). BlueDragon.NET is not a separate server, but is native .NET assembly that provides true integration of CFML with ASP.NET and the entire Microsoft .NET Framework.

With the public introduction of BlueDragon for the Microsoft .NET Framework, New Atlanta now offers the broadest platform support and most feature-rich suite of CFML server products available anywhere. Among the features offered by BlueDragon that are not supported by any other CFML server are:

  • Standalone CFML server supported on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, including FREE deployment servers on all three platforms.
  • Deployment and integration of CFML applications on any J2EE server in standard WAR/EAR file format, including support for IBM WebSphere network deployment clusters and BEA WebLogic packed WARs.
  • Deployment and integration of CFML applications on Microsoft .NET Servers (including Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003).
  • "Source-less" deployment of pre-compiled CFML applications, with optional encryption for maximum security.
  • Enhanced tags such as CFIMAGE, CFIMAP, CFCONSTRUCTOR, CFFORWARD, and CFASSERT.

This follows on the June 24 final release of BlueDragon 6.1, which added CFML features such as CFCs, XML, web services, and other features associated with CFMX 6.1 as well as many other enhancements. To learn more about this and other BlueDragon editions, visit http://www.newatlanta.com/bluedragon/.

Look for more new and exciting innovations to be announced by New Atlanta in the near future.


comments (3)


1. a reader left...
Wednesday, 14 July 2004 10:16 pm

Most excellent news.. I'm looking forward to finding some time to play around with this a bit. :-)

Source-less deployment is an awesome feature. Any chance a cfcontinue tag could also be introduced to skip loop iterations easily?

darron


2. Charlie Arehart left...
Wednesday, 14 July 2004 10:31 pm

Darron, just to clarify, source-less deployment isn't new to the .NET edition. We support it in all the editions.

As for a CFCONTINUE tag, it's a great idea. Of course, it's already in the CFSCRIPT language so if you could switch to that it will work. The following works in both CF and BD:


for (i=0;i lt 10;i=i+1) {
if (i gt 5) continue;
// following only output when i le 5
writeoutput(i);
}

But I sense you know that and simply want it in a CFLOOP. I'll point out that there are some work-arounds offered at http://www.markme.com/cantrell/archives/003008.cfm.

But as for adding it to BD, it's a good idea. You can post it to the "feature request" link offered on the "self-help area" of our site (http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/self_help/index.cfm)