Joe Rinehart

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM. It was filed in the following categories: ColdFusion MX. It has been viewed 1,054 times and has 3 comments.

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• Comment 1 written by Dan Skaggs on 21 October 2009, at 2:52 PM

  

  I moved to a dev environment very similar to what you did back in February. I have clients on CFMX7, CF8 and we recently did a project on Railo 3.1. Setting things up this way made it really easy to keep everything nice and segmented and, like you said, gives me console output directly from within Flex.
  
  Eventually, when time permits, I'm going to see if I can get the same thing going in CF Builder.

• Comment 2 written by DevLano on 21 October 2009, at 4:59 PM

  

  I personally don't put my cfml engine/code files into the webapps folder (tho I delete everything in it like you did). I like to keep a tomcat runtime per project, just outside the workspace folder. http://bit.ly/1l8alj (good for times when you want to rebuild a workspace due to an un-fix-able error) and if you look at other j2e style apps (check out how the atlassian products are set up) you really don't want to send out your workspace with your actual product. you can send someone your app, have them start the .bat file, and your app is instantly running on w.e port you configured. standalone goodness. in the server definition config UI, there is a tab at the bottom for external modules. there you can define where your web-inf folder(s) live. I find this nice b/c I can set up path def's like: /cf8 or /cf9 or /rai, if I want to run my code in diff flavors of cfml. so localhost:8080/cf8 would bring me to that particular svn export of my code. it's the fastest way to get ALL the cfml engines running with the click of one go btn.
  
  I've noticed a real pattern to how the java stuff has this 'spec' that everyone follows. I've also noticed this in air/flex apps. Before I understood the java spec, I didn't get why air and flex had a folder structure created in the way that they are, but now I see that maybe down the line, coldfusion too, will have a spec of sorts. (if there is not one already)
  
  @Dan
  I did a few months of this stuff in coldfusion builder (much thanks to your preso on cfmeetup) took me forever to find what the actual server view was called to get the plugin I needed: http://bit.ly/1wde9A JST in Ganymede is where all that is hidden. I got to a real nice set up in cfbuilder: http://bit.ly/xJ1Wu just before it locked up on me due to end of beta trial time :( lol. wait for the full product.
  
  Dev.

• Comment 3 written by Ben Densmore on 20 November 2009, at 3:04 PM

  

  This setup saves so much time. This was a great post.
  
  Do you have more details on which Servlet you used for SES urls?