Java

Back in Edinburgh for Scotch On The Rocks 2014

by kai 31/12/2013

There are those moments when everything just falls into place. Before Xmas and before I got the notification from the CAB at cf.Objective(), one of my submitted sessions was accepted for Scotch On The Rocks 2014. I’m still extremely happy about that as the amount of submissions they got was massive (around ~160, iirc) and given that […]

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When and why you should run when someone (including myself) recommends a certain set of JVM settings

by kai 30/12/2013

This is part two of a loosely connected series of blog posts dealing with JVM settings. Make sure you check out the first post titled “JVM memory settings for Railo (and Adobe ColdFusion) on Tomcat” before continuing to get an idea of the overall context of this series. Today’s post is about why generic recommendations […]

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Some cool new tools in Java 7 Update 40

by kai 02/12/2013

Oracle released Java 7 Update 40 back in September. Obviously there are a bunch of improvements in the security department and some new third-party libraries. Apart from this standard stuff, you’ll find a lot of really awesome goodies in this update, too. Depending on how long you’ve been dealing with Java and JVMs you might remember […]

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Some more differences when moving to Railo

by kai 14/05/2013

You might remember that I’ve blogged about the differences between Railo and ColdFusion in the past. Here’s another one to look out for – this popped up on the railo mailing list the other day. A poster was asking about some Adobe CF-specific code that was used to retrieve a list of datasources (working on Adobe CFMX […]

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IntelliJ 12.1 has been released

by kai 13/04/2013

Recently the Jetbrains team have released IntelliJ 12.1. It’s a free upgrade for owners of IntelliJ 12, therefore it was a no-brainer for me to apply the upgrade – and IntelliJ is my default go-to-IDE anyway. Unfortunately there are no noticeable new features or fixes for the CFML plugin that made it into version 12.1. […]

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Railo and ColdFusion on Java 7: don’t forget the crypto extensions

by kai 02/04/2013

So – more on the whole Java 7 thing again. The other day I got an “Illegal key size or default parameters” error on one of my dev VMs. I was using the VM for quite a while and from what I could see the codebase had not changed significantly. Weird. All of a sudden […]

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Aaaand… another JVM update…

by kai 10/03/2013

I thought it’d be over, but it turns out that I was wrong. Oracle has pushed out JDK/JRE 1.6.0_43 – their first (of maybe many) security bugfixes of Java 6 post-end-of-support. The new security baseline is now 1.6.0_43, check out the release notes and the relevant Security Alert document. From what I can see the patched […]

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Another Java security baseline update (ColdFusion, Railo and others)

by kai 22/02/2013

There’s just been another release of Java 6 that is relevant for the security of your ColdFusion or Railo servers (but also for anything and anyone else running a Java-based server or client product). After having pushed out Update 39 just recently, Oracle has released Java 6 Update 41 (also known as JDK 1.6.0_41) and […]

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Java | ColdFusion | Railo security update

by kai 05/02/2013

This is just a quick free-of-charge public service announcement that Oracle has released Java 6 Update 39. Why is this important for users of ColdFusion or Railo? A lot of people are running their Railo and ColdFusion servers on Java 6. Update 39 is a so called “update to the JRE Security Baseline of Java […]

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Two tips to make Railo 4’s default installation more secure

by kai 16/01/2013

You might have read my recent post about installing Railo 4 on a Debian server. Post-install I did a bit of clean up and also used Pete Freitag’s excellent hackmycf.com against that server. Many people might not know that it does support checking Railo servers as well as Adobe ColdFusion servers. Two interesting things popped […]

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