SOTR – Day 2 – Railo 3.0
Posted by johnb | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 05-06-2008
Tags: ColdFusion
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Some neat stuff coming in Rail 3.0 beta which should drop tomorrow. It’s main goal was CF8 compatibility.
Amazon S3 is available as a resource, so create a mapping and then treat S3 as file system. Cluster scope introduced (over http) which is a shared scope across servers – also allows synchronized servers, eg adding datasource on one adds it to all the servers in the cluster – that is way cool!
Railo Task manager – used for stuff like cfmail, managing cluster scope, remote synchronization (eg, server in cluster is down, Task manager stores the task until server is available to update scope). Task manager also manages CFTHREAD, restarting threads, retry’s etc even across server restarts. Demo between a local instance and jetty instance, updating scope – stopping a server in cluster, updating again and then restarting jetty instance and it receiving the new value. NEAT!
CFVIDEO/CFVIDEOPLAYER/CFVIDEOPLAYERPARAM – used for format conversion (flv, mov, avi,mpeg,mp-4,animated gif), taking a screen shot from point in video, video information – codecs, size etc. Predefined profiles for conversion, YouTube, iPhone, divx,xvid etc. Need to install ffmpeg separately as can’t be distributed with Railo…Woohoo, just won a 1gb memory stick…for answering true to ‘Does FusionReactor support Railo?’ CFVIDEOPLAYER supports multiple files, full screen, playlists (with preview image). CFFILE destinations can been s3 over http.
