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Chapter 2: Changes in ColdFusion MX 7
Data source changes
The cfsnippets, CompanyInfo, and CFExamples data sources have been combined into the
cfdocexample data source. This database includes all tables from the previous three data sources.
It is provided to support the ColdFusion documentation code examples and does not necessarily
represent best practices in database design (for example, there is an employee table and an
employees table).
For more information on these changes, see
CFML Reference
.
By default, the Configuration Wizard defines sample data sources using the Microsoft Access with
Unicode driver.
Multiple instance management
In ColdFusion MX 6.1, you managed multiple server instances and clusters of multiple server
instances through the JRun Management Console (JMC). This functionality is now available
through the Enterprise Manager area of the ColdFusion MX Administrator.
Note:
The Enterprise Manager is only available if you install ColdFusion MX 7 using the multiserver
configuration.
If you installed ColdFusion MX 6.1 using the ColdFusion MX with JRun 4 option and want to
use the Enterprise Manager, you must uninstall JRun before installing ColdFusion MX 7.
Alternatively, you can continue defining server instances using the JMC.
For more information on this changes, see
Configuring and Administering ColdFusion MX
or the
ColdFusion MX Administrator online Help.
ColdFusion MX Administrator
In addition to changes that support new features, the ColdFusion MX Administrator contains the
following changes:
•
New look and feel
•
The Settings page includes a Default CFFORM ScriptSrc Directory field, which lets you
specify the default path (relative to the web root) to the directory containing the cfform.js file.
•
Removed StringFormat from the data source pages for DB2 and Informix.
•
Certain options, such as Maximum Number of Simultaneous Request, which were previously
unavailable in the J2EE configuration, are now available in the multiserver configuration even
though, technically, it is a variant of the J2EE configuration.
The cfmail tag and malformed e-mail addresses
In previous releases, the
cfmail
tag wrote invalid e-mail addresses to an undelivered directory. In
ColdFusion MX 7, the
cfmail
tag returns an error if one of the recipient attributes contains a
malformed e-mail address. Your application should validate e-mail address format before invoking
cfmail
.