Archive for July, 2010

Distributed Cache with ColdFusion 9.0.1

Easily modify a few configuration files to enable distributed caching using Terracotta and Ehcache for use with ColdFusion’s own caching mechanisms.

If you remember back to my previous post, Intro to Ehcache Server and RESTful Web Services, I went into detail regarding how to set up an out-of-process caching server. If you’re lucky enough to be using ColdFusion 9 and have upgraded to the latest 9.0.1 patch, you may have noticed that one of the updates was to update Ehcache 1.6 to version 2.0. This update enables you to tie your ColdFusion instance in with a Terracotta distributed caching server.

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ColdFusion 9.0.1 Fixes onRequestEnd Bug

Just a friendly heads-up for those of you out there that had exploited the fact that previous versions of ColdFusion wouldn’t execute the onRequestEnd handler following a page with a cfabort or cflocation tag. The ColdFusion 9.0.1 release has fixed this… so if you’re doing anything in the onRequestEnd function and expect it not to execute, beware!

ColdFusion 9.0.1 Issues Fixed