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While this can looks like a bad new .... well it is not.

Latest Railo BER ( 3.1.2.019 ) has included also the missing part of RailoAjax project into the Railo core distribution. From this point the development and maintenanace of the tags will be made directly from the Railo project itself.

As per today Railo included the following tags:

• cfajaxproxy
• cfajaximport
• cfdiv
• cfmap
• cfmapitem
• cfwindow
• cflayout and cflayoutarea ( just for tabs )
• ajaxonload function
• the js library that support the previous tags 

I am quite happy about this step. RailoAjax just started like a fun coding of the ajaxproxy and ended into the Railo core..... I really have to thanks all the Railo Team for the support received.

So please note the following:

• If you have a RailoAjax extension installed into your server or we context please remove it before update to 3.1.2.019. Or if you have already updated just remove the extension and restart the Railo.
• The RailoAjax website and the trac  will be shutted down when Railo 3.2 will be delivered.
• The RailoAjax extension provider http://railoajax.org/extensionProvider.cfc  will be still available up to the 31 december 2010.

If you have any issues please contact me or raise a JIRA tickect.

If you want to help coding new functionalities the source code is available on github.

Something very cool about github services are gists.

Gists are a sort of snippets than you can create, share and embedd using a simple js script tag. I have started to use them very often and I think I will that more and more in the future. JUst think about that gists are also plain git repo and as any git repo can be cloned and shared between your team.

I have created a very simple Mango plugin ( mango in very easy when you want to create plugins !!! ) so that you can embed your gists in your mango posts.

Syntax is incredibly easy .... just have a look here.

The mango auto install url is : http://github.com/downloads/andreacfm/mango.gists/com.andreacfm.mango.gists_1.0.zip

You can also download the zip or clone the source form the same GitHub repo.

Have fun !

While the cfeclipse team is working on giving support to the new scripting syntax added recently in cfml I falled into something that can help someone to have a better feeeling in the meantime.

I was not aware, until yesterday, that this syntax is supported in a script based cfc:

<cfscript>
component{
   
    public String function getname(String name="Andrea"){
        return name;
    }
    public String function getlastname(String lastname="Campolonghi"){
        return lastname;
    }
}
</cfscript>

So while it does not really looks "amazing" this will give you code colouring and syntax highlighting. But, most important, the syntax is fully supported from ACF and Railo too ( did not test on OpenBD ).

Some of you will be asking why to do that ? Just use cfbuilder .... and I agree. Cfbuilder is a great tool also if , in my opinion , lack of linux support. But I am one of those who are convinced that cfml deserves an open and strong ide to attract more developers so ... if you think like me consider to donate something to cfeclipse project.

In the Railo mailing lists are often required informations about the settings needed to implement calls via the AMF protocol. If you use the Railo Installers ( thanks again Jordan for this !! ) anything should already being setted up and ready to use but in case of any needs there was a lack of public informations about this topic.

We have now a nice wiki section where you can find a very exhaustive explanations of many aspect of this topic ( credits to Roland Ringgenberg ) .

Have a nice Railo/Blaze Ds integration !!

For linux/unix user is quite common to use the command touch (from the shell) to update the last modified date of a file (to the current time) or to create a new file.

You can do that as well from Railo :

<cffile action="touch" file="whatever.cfm">