Welcome to the Tower, my programming and web development blog. Here you will find articles relating to CFML, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript and Regular Expressions, plus discussions on the associated tools, technologies, techniques and ideas.</p> <p>For more general topics, please visit <a href="http://www.sorcerers-isle.net">Sorcerer's Isle</a>, where you will find articles on my other interests. JBoss

<p>It's nearly a year on from my last Railo blog post so it is well overdue that I write another - just in case there is anyone still sitting on the fence, unsure if they should use Railo - or indeed, anyone who might be unaware of Railo's very existance!</p> <br/> <p>So to start with, a quick summary of what Railo is:</p> <ul> <li>Railo, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1QKOHThSiM#t=0m10s" title="(sounds like 'silo')">pronounced /&#712;ra&#618;.l&#601;&#650;/</a>, is super fast Enterprise-level sofware for RAD webapp and website creation.</li> <li>Railo is LGPL-licensed <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software</a>, so anyone can use it how they like.</li> <li>Railo runs on any <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaee/">Java EE</a> server, (but doesn't require Java knowledge), and is a <a href="http://www.jboss.org/">Jboss.org</a> project.</li> <li>Railo uses the <a href="http://www.opencfml.org">CFML language</a>, like <a href="http://www.adobe.com/coldfusion">Adobe ColdFusion</a> (the primary CFML engine), <a href="http://www.openbluedragon.org">OpenBlueDragon</a>, and others.</li> <li>Railo is really awesome.</li> </ul> <br/> <p><a href="http://www.sorcerers-isle.net/article/railo_still_awesome.html"><strong>Find out why Railo is the perfect choice for your next development project.</strong></a></p> <br/>

2010-01-26T21:42:41Z

<p>As promised previously, here is a more detailed entry on the announcement to Open Source the Railo CFML engine.</p>

2008-06-08T17:59:40Z

<p>Today at the midday Scotch keynote, Gert Franz and Luc Texier made an impressive announcement: <strong>Railo is going completely Open Source.</strong></p> <br/> <p>This is an exciting move both for Railo and for the CFML community as a whole, and I'll be writing more details about it later, but for now here some some quick key details...</p> <p>There will be two editions of Railo, with the Community and Professional editions combining into one, and the Enterprise edition being the other:</p> <p>The new Community+Professional edition will be Open Source and there will be no limit to the number of web contexts allowed.</p> <p>The Enterprise edition will have added value features, including tools from Intergral.</p> <br/> <p>The license will be LGPL2, which means you can distribute Railo along with commercial software.</p> <p>The timeline for release of the source code is mid to late October, around the time that Railo 3.1 is due for release.</p> <p>The announcement is online at the JBoss website at <a href="http://www.jboss.org/railo">www.jboss.org/railo</a></p> <br/> <p><strong>More Information available:</strong> <a href="http://blog.bpsite.net/item/59/Railo%20goes%20Open%20Source%20with%20JBoss.org%20(Update).html">Railo goes Open Source with JBoss.org (Update)</a></p>

2008-06-05T17:30:11Z