Developing with Railo Server

Railo Server language & environment reference

CFML language in Railo Server

Language & syntax differences

Member functions

Reserved words

Operators

General deviations from CFML

Directory placeholders & how to use them

Scopes

CFML tags

CFML tags

New tags

Enhanced tags

Unsupported tags / tags with limited support

CFML functions

CFML Functions

Enhanced functions

Unsupported functions / functions with limited support

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• Railo Server language & environment reference

  • Description of Railo Server language features
  • Reserved words
  • General differences between ACF & Railo Server
  • Tags
  • Functions
  • Application.cfc & application settings

• Concepts

  • Application Lifecycle

  • Mail (i.e. cfmail, cfpop, cfimap, mail-related tips)

  • Caching

    • Template caching

    • Partial template caching

    • User caches

    • Query caching

    • Page pool

    Both currently on tips and tricks page.

  • Database access & datasources

  • Exception handling

  • Locking

  • Threading

  • Scheduling

  • Serialising data

  • Object-oriented CFML

    • Railo Server magic functions
    • Implicit conversions

  • ORM

  • ReST Services

  • Event gateways

  • Using Railo Server virtual filesystems

  • Railo-Server-only concepts

    • Railo Server resource bundles
    • Working with Resources and Mappings

  • Writing CFScript vs Tags

    • CFScript based tags

  • Closures

  • Member functions

  • Enhancing Railo Server

    • Writing custom tags
      • in CFML
      • in CFScript
    • Creating built-in tags
    • Creating built-in functions
    • Extending Railo Server with Java
      • Where to install external libraries
    • Extending Railo Server with CFXs (deprecated really?)
    • Railo Server Extensions
      • Using Railo Server Extensions
      • Available extensions
        • CouchDB
        • Membase
        • MongoDB
        • Infinispan
        • etc
      • Building your own extensions
    • Creating your own Event Gateway types

• Practices

  • Integration with other systems, e.g. databases, message queues & search engines
  • Design patterns
  • Best practices / architectural patterns
    • Using scopes explicitly in code
  • Secure development
  • Unit testing & continuous integration
  • Debugging
    • Changing dump template
  • Editors & IDEs

• Tutorials & samples

  • Using Java libraries in Railo Server
  • Sample applications
  • Examplar code samples