OpenBlueDragon is here. Woot!
OpenBlueDragon, “the worlds favourite GPL open source J2EE CFML runtime engine” is out and available at OpenBlueDragon.org. This is a fantastic addition to the open source world.
For the last eight years I’ve built three companies and made a good living developing coldfusion applications. We’ve all watched as the product and our destiny passed from Allaire to Macromedia to Adobe. ColdFusion books bloomed on the shelves of Borders and Barnes and Noble only to disappear into Amazon. I’ve cycled through Ruby and PHP and loathed .Net and at the end of the day, I can *STILL* get more out the door with CFML than I can with anything else. Now we can finally take the bull by the horns.
There are, of course other Non-Adobe CFML projects, but OpenBlueDragon seems to have what it takes to carry the day. We’ve been waiting for this for some time, and are planning to port our condoEngine application from Win2k / IIS / CFMX 6.1 / SqlServer setup to Linux / OpenBlueDragon / MySql, or Firebird… We plan to document our little adventure on this blog.
We’re also working on getting OpenBlueDragon working on or Parrallels - Plesk based hosting platforms. Plesk currently has both ColdFusion and Tomcat integrated into the control panel. There are a lot of small hosting companies - and some large ones - using Plesk. Getting OpenBlueDragon running on Plesk servers may help introduce many new users to the project.
We’ll keep posting…