Railo Server features & specifications

Platform support

OS support

Supported on any Java platform.

Installers provided for

• Windows
• OS X
• Linux

WAR file & JAR file deployment versions also available.

Supported servlet containers

• Any servlet container (e.g. Jetty, Tomcat, Glassfish, JBoss, Resin, etc)
• Supplied with Tomcat (installed version) or Jetty (express version)

Supported web servers

• Microsoft IIS
• Apache HTTP server
• Jetty

Supported Java versions

• JRE 6
• JRE 7

##Server features

Clustering & failover

• Included in all versions

Database support

• DB2
• Firebird
• H2 Database Engine
• Hypersonic
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• ODBC (Access, etc.)
• Oracle
• JDBC
• PostgreSQL
• Sybase

Support for transactions, query caching, stored procedures, etc.

Virtual file systems supported

• Local hard disk
• RAM
• HTTP
• DB
• FTP
• SFTP
• ZIP
• TAR
• Amazon AWS S3

Mail protocols supported

• POP
• SMTP
• IMAP

Remote comms support

• HTTP
• HTTPS
• FTP
• SFTP

Built-in GZIP support for HTTP responses

Caching

Cache types

• Template cache
• Partial template cache
• Database query cache
• Function cache
• User caches

Supported user caches

• RamCache
• EHCache Lite
• EHCache
• CouchDB
• MongoDB
• Memcached
• Infinispan
• Membase

Search

• Apache Lucene included

Charting, document creation & other media

• Charting engine included
• PDF creation included
• Image creation & manipulation included
• Video conversion & playback included

Extensibility features

• Java objects
• web services
• COM

Additional language extensions, frameworks, additional features, drivers, etc. available for automatic download and installation via the Extension Manager.

Scheduling

• Scheduler available programatically or via administrator
• Failed schedules monitored
• Schedule logging

Language features

CFML compatibility

• Version 10

OOP features

• interfaces
• implicit accessors / mutators
• implicit constructors
• ORM (object-relational mapping)

Error handling

• Robust exception handling including
  • try / catch
  • throwing
  • rethrowing
  • finally
  • catch-all error handling in code
  • site-wide error handling temlates

Security features

• Support for NTLM
• HTTPS
• login, logout and role management

Encryption features

Support for various encryption standards:

• CFML specific algorithm
• AES
• BLOWFISH
• DES
• Triple DES

Encodings available:

• Base64
• Hex
• UU

Data format support

• XML
• JSON
• WDDX
• RSS

Compression algorithms supported

• ZIP
• TAR
• TGZ

Debugging

• Integrated debugging templates
  • Customisable output for different groups of users
  • Contents of debug output selectable
  • Determine unused query columns and unscoped variables
• FusionDebug compatible

Benchmarking and profiling tools

• FusionAnalytics compatible

Editor / IDE support

Supported by various popular editors and IDEs. See Railo editors & IDEs page.

Deployment & hosting features

Deployment

• Railo archives
• Secure Railo archive

Monitoring support

• FusionReactor compatible

Supported cloud systems

(Beanstalk, Amazon EC2, Cloudbees, Jelastic etc.)