ColdFusion improvements – Charting, Auto-Check for Updates, and Solr

November 23, 2011 by Mike Henke

CFObjective ANZ announced a lot of cool news about ColdFusion. I am doing a series over these announcements. The first post was about upcoming improvements with CFFile update and For in loop CFScript support of Queries. The next was CFC improvements with implicit constructors, notation, and chaining. This will be over ColdFusion Server auto update feature, CFChart adding html format, and several Solr enhancements.

ColdFusion Server Updates

This Auto-Check feature has a lot of developers that manage their servers excited. It seems you can select automatically check for updates at every login, schedule update checks at set interval like daily, send email notification when updates are found, and even set up a local update site. It seems you can have updates installed automatically through Admin UI or manually execute hot fix installer jar downloaded.

From 2011-11-18

Charting Updates

Notice the format attribute can be set to html to generate a HTML chart.

From 2011-11-18

HTML generated chart

From 2011-11-18

Solr updates like directly index database, custom fields, reload collections individually, and hibernate support added.

From 2011-11-18

ACF · cf.Objective (ANZ) · ColdFusion

2 Comments + Add Comment

Michael Zock Nov 23, 2011 at 6:01 AM PERMALINK

Thanks for sharing those details.

Did they mention whether the update feature will contain a rollback option like the one Railo has?
During the Developer Week presentations it was still to be determined whether Zeus will be able to do a rollback in case incompatibility problems arise due to an update.
Mike Henke* Nov 23, 2011 at 6:03 AM PERMALINK

Terry didn't mention but that is a great idea and am sure it is being discussed.