Feb 8 2007

An Open Source Coldfusion?

Posted by john at 4:16 PM
6 comments - Categories: Adobe

Smith Project
from their website.
Smith is a freeware, cross-platform ColdFusion engine, written entirely in Java. Running on the top of Java Runtime Environment and Java Servlet Container, it can be virtually deployed on any operating system and work with any web server. Smith represents lightweight, yet reliable alternative to the existing ColdFusion servers. It supports most important CF features (see Features) and already drives several large ColdFusion applications. Deeply integrated in J2EE, Smith works as part of ordinary Java Web application and can easily be used together with servlets and JSPs. The server behaviour is easily configurable through the simple Web interface where database connections, debugging options, server mappings and more can be set. Smith is freeware software, which means that it comes with permission for anyone to use, copy, and distribute it. It is also being seriously considered to open-source it.
Ill be looking at it over the next couple of days.

Comments

John Miller

John Miller wrote on 02/08/07 5:11 PM

It isn't open source; it's free it use. However if you read their FAQ you'll see it says they're open to making it open source. I think this would be a great move since the price of ColdFusion has been one of the reasons the developer community hasn't adopted it.
John Miller

John Miller wrote on 02/08/07 5:14 PM

correction: hasn't adopted it on as large of a scale as ASP.NET, PHP, etc.
Balthork

Balthork wrote on 02/08/07 6:14 PM

It will be open-sourced in a month or so per their forum:

http://www.smithproject.org/forum/posts/list/15.page
John Lyons

John Lyons wrote on 02/08/07 7:02 PM

I think this is a great idea. If Adobe were to respond by adopting a Red Hat service license business plan , I personally believe that cf usage would sky rocket. And i would never agian have to deal IIS and M$ crap again. muah ha ha ha
ioniy654

ioniy654 wrote on 05/15/09 4:23 AM

I still think PHP has a major role to play in the future, with PHP5 object oriented and great features like SimpleXML - http://file.sh/XML+torrent.html. IMHO I see PHP scripts for frontend apps and RoR apps for all the backend stuff, and that’s what I’am actually trying to do at work.
legendarydevils

legendarydevils wrote on 03/28/11 2:24 AM

Actually, I regard this as a Good Thing. CF is a champion for pounding out small sites quickly. I'd go as far to say that in that capacity probably nothing can beat it. I haven't seen anything that beats .... . CFCs tried to bring objects and OO to CF, and they've gone a long way to destroying the principal strength of the language - simplicity. Take a look at the CF community these days and most of what you'll find is intellectual masturbation. They're going down the same road Java went down recently. A proliferation of frameworks, to the point where they have numerous ORMs and even a Spring clone. You have to wonder if at any point these guys don't say, "Hmm, why don't we just use Java?"

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