railo 4-0 - keynote

Railo 4(ever)!Gert Franz & Mark Drew

Railo Ltd.

What’s been happening?

CFCamp – Munich - 2012 Gert Franz– Railo Ltd.

Railo downloads

70K Downloads/Updates since October 2011Avg. 6-7000 / month


New Developers

36%

64%

New to CFML Existing


Railo 3.3 – Book!

• Getting Started

• Installation

• AJAX & CFVIDEO

• Extending Railo Server

• Resources

• and more!

• More books coming soon


Fandalism


World singles


NASA

Extension SDK

Future of CFML

Railo is GrowingBut is it enough?


Things YOU want

• Guarantee of CFML’s Future

• World Class Support & Consultancy

• Awesome Engine

• Documentation/Training

• Business Friendly Open Source

• Commercial License

• Features!!!


How can Railo do this?

• Healthy Company

• Vital Community

• New Members

• Great Marketing

Let’s do something new


The Railo Company

• Railo Technologies (CH, UK, US) becomes The Railo Company

• New Investors

• World-wide involvement

• Strong backers, without brand hinderance


The Railo Company

• Gruppo Tesi (Italy)

• Aurel & Co. (France)

• Prisma IT (Netherlands)

• TagNile (Finland)

• BlueRiver (US) – MURA

• And of course: Railo Technologies

Technical Development Advisory Board (TDAB)

“Group of professional consultants to drive the

direction of Railo Server”


Railo Academy

• Training/Certification

• Documentation

• Events

• Central resource for CFML


In Summary...

• CFML is HERE TO STAY

• We are MARKETING it

• We are SUPPORTING it

• We are DEVELOPING it

• For the next 10 years and more

And now... Railo 4


Railo 4.0

• Over 110 new features since Railo 3.3

• Over 400 bugfixes

• 14 releases

• Avg. bug fix time: 3 days


Days between releases

6.5

15.8

12.4

9.610.2

0

5

10

15

20

Railo 3.0 Railo 3.1 Railo 3.2 Railo 3.3 Railo 4.0


Railo 4.0 release plan

• Currently public Beta 2

• Release candidate – Next week

• Final release – November 2012

• Railo unleashed – December 2012


Further releases planned

• Railo 5.0 – Winter 2013

• We have concrete ideas for Railo 5.0

• Roadmap will be developed after the Railo 4.0 release

• Railo 6.0 – Winter 2014


Railo 4.0 Beta

• Compatibility

• Developer Features / Tools

• Core Engine Improvements

• Business features

• Command Line


Compatibility

• Closures

• REST web services

• Security – ESAPI encoding

• Java integration

• Charting / HTML5


Compatibility

• AND LONG AWAITED:

• CFBEER


Syntax changes

• Loop collection index item

• Tag usage in cfscript

• Method chaining

• Annotations

• Multiple assignments


Developer Features / Tools

• Lazy query

<cfquery name="getSomething" lazy="true" ...>

Select * From customers

</cfquery>

<cfloop query="getSomething" maxrows="100">

#getSomething.name#

</cfloop>

This will get the results only if needed!


Syntax changes

• Member functions

• Cached functions

• For/In loops

• Mid(string, start, [len])

• Closures (work inside tags as well)

• GetTickCount("nano|micro")



• Extended debugging features

• Execution time now in nanoseconds

• IP Range definition

• Debugging console

• Query, scope usage



• Hands on debugging

• Setting up debugging

• Set debugging options

• Output options

• Templates

• Offline debugging



• CodeMetrix

• Analyze slow code fragments

• Shows code coverage

• Output inspection


CodeMetrix


Business Features

• Railo 4.0 offers all different kinds ofmonitors

• Memory monitor

• Scope monitor

• Query Monitor

• All different kinds of query stats


Business Features

• New admin design

• jQuery based

• Different new options

• Timezone definitions for datasources

• Maintain key case for structs (JSON)

• New debugging options


Railo – CLI

• CLI is a different approach to CFM

• Usually CFM involves HTTP protocol

• Web server

• Application server

• Browser


Railo – CLI

• With CLI this changes completely

• No

• HTTP

• Web server

• Application server

• Browser


Basic idea

• Use Railo on a server wherever you like

• Command line

• From within Java

• Other programming languages


Basic idea

• New concept to use CFML for all your tasks


Command Line

• Allows calling Railo via command line

• Useful for batch processing

• Generate PDF documents

• Initialize Applications

• Compile applications

• Deployment


Command Line

• Hands on CLI

• Execute a call on a local .cfm file

• Manipulate some images

• Generate a pdf

• Send the pdf by email to a client

• Log everything

• All this written in CFM (no app- or webserver)


Tighter integration with Java

• <cfscript language="Java">

• <cfcomponent extendsjava="…">

• Java reflection

• Railo runtime class for Java


Railo 4 in the Cloud

• Session scope clustered

• Application scope clustered

• Server Scope clustered

• Support for additional Cache Engines

• Images on all major Cloud providers


Railo commercial license

• Will contain

• all extensions provided by Railo Ltd.

• code profiler

• installation support

• discounts for tickets

• Railo book

• discount for consulting

• Release December 1st 2012


Questions?

• More information

• Railo Server – www.getrailo.org

• Railo Technologies – www.getrailo.com

• Contact – [email protected]

• Wiki – wiki.getrailo.org

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