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Migrating Applications to ColdFusion MX 7

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Page 1: ...COLDFUSION MX7 Migrating Applications to ColdFusion MX 7...

Page 2: ...Macromedia provides these links only as a convenience and the inclusion of the link does not imply that Macromedia endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content on those third party sites Co...

Page 3: ...n management 11 QueryColumn object 11 Data type of query results 11 Localization and character handling 12 Extended character code and encoding support 12 Support for new currency formats 13 Changes t...

Page 4: ...Running multiple ColdFusion versions 24 Other changes in ColdFusion MX 7 24 CHAPTER 3 Tag and Function Changes 33 Tag changes since ColdFusion 5 33 New tags attributes values and changes 34 Deprecate...

Page 5: ...ongly encourages you to develop a migration plan for porting existing ColdFusion 5 applications to ColdFusion MX For more information see Planning your migration on page 6 Whether you encounter incomp...

Page 6: ...igration strategy to meet your environment s needs This section contains two possible migration strategies following a discussion of web server differences in ColdFusion MX Web server considerations C...

Page 7: ...http localhost 8300 CFIDE administrator index cfm When running in the J2EE configuration you use the web server capabilities of the underlying J2EE application server If you are using the built in web...

Page 8: ...placing deprecated tags and using new functionality 10 Make the necessary changes to your ColdFusion application and run the application on your test computer Ensure that you test all application feat...

Page 9: ...Server Configuration Tool for the web server used in production For more information see Installing and Using ColdFusion MX or Configuring and Administering ColdFusion MX b Rename the CFIDE directory...

Page 10: ...nteract with databases for example to query write and update a database JDBC is an Application Programming Interface API for Java programs to access data To connect to Open Database Connectivity ODBC...

Page 11: ...nagement For backward compatibility J2EE session management is disabled by default However you should enable this feature whenever possible For more information see Using Persistent Data and Locking i...

Page 12: ...er set encoding This can affect the way that characters in the range 128 255 are displayed in the browser To restore the ColdFusion 5 default encoding place the following cfcontent tag in your page or...

Page 13: ...latforms ColdFusion 5 uses Windows or UNIX locale formatting rules depending on the ColdFusion platform For information on Java standard locale formatting rules see the Java documentation for the Loca...

Page 14: ...sion 5 this function had numerous errors where it used the wrong international currency designator For example in an English Australian locale LSCurrencyFormat 123456 78 international returned USD123...

Page 15: ...1 3 docs api index html If you pass an invalid mask for example dd mm yymm LSDateFormat outputs the invalid characters in both ColdFusion 5 and ColdFusion MX However ColdFusion 5 delimits each charact...

Page 16: ...tem from the JVM If the operating system has no set locale or if ColdFusion MX does not support the operating system s default locale GetLocale returns en_US English US ColdFusion MX sets the locale i...

Page 17: ...ldFusion MX includes the following changes to variables You can no longer use a dot in a variable name because ColdFusion MX supports the dot notation as a dot operator to create a struct For example...

Page 18: ...ion MX preserves the case of field names submitted by forms instead of forcing them to uppercase Like ColdFusion 5 ColdFusion MX ignores case when evaluating field names for example form myfield is th...

Page 19: ...the following tag cfsetting RequestTimeout URL RequestTimeout For more information see the Reserved Words and Variables chapter in CFML Reference Definition of pi ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion 5 defin...

Page 20: ...js and change your cfform tags to use the scriptsrc attribute specifying the location of this file Ask your hosting provide to modify your virtual website to include a virtual mapping for the CFIDE d...

Page 21: ...gistry are subject to change Therefore you should not rely on registry keys that ColdFusion creates to store its system settings Using ListSort in ColdFusion MX When sorting with textnocase in a desce...

Page 22: ...description column of the database CFQUERY NAME bookquery DATASOURCE book SELECT FROM book where bookid file CFQUERY CFOUTPUT QUERY bookquery url description BR cfindex collection snippets action upda...

Page 23: ...configuration Multiserver configuration Enterprise Edition only Installs JRun and automatically deploys ColdFusion MX 7 in a separate JRun server instance This configuration contains the Enterprise M...

Page 24: ...f Application cfm Application cfc methods are triggered when application sessions and requests start or stop and when the application encounters an exception If your application already uses a file na...

Page 25: ...pression AS casttype function Support for the varchar concatenation operator Support for SQL and ODBC style dates inside a query of queries Size is no longer a reserved word when you create a query of...

Page 26: ...s Web services enhancements and changes include the following The CreateObject function and the port attribute of the cfcomponent tag let you select the port to use in a WSDL that contains more than o...

Page 27: ...ata Source JNDI After it is defined you can specify the data source name in the datasource attribute of SQL tags to access the J2EE data source Datasources found in this way cannot specify additional...

Page 28: ...47 Jintegra upgraded from COM 2 1 to 2 2 Axis 1 2 RC2 plus fixes Enhanced string and data encoding and decoding Use the following new functions for encoding and decoding text and data BinaryEncode Con...

Page 29: ...bjects using the CreateObject function also turns off access using the cfobject tag User defined functions You can now call user defined functions using the same name as the following obsolete advance...

Page 30: ...t 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 se...

Page 31: ...For more information see Configuring and Administering ColdFusion MX The Web Server Configuration Tool creates the following additional properties ProxyRetryInterval The number of seconds to wait bef...

Page 32: ...ipt 2 0 and uses a component ServerSide ActionScript is deprecated in ColdFusion MX 7 During a multiserver configuration installation the default JRun server is not installed which means that the jrun...

Page 33: ...e following tables list tags attributes and values that have changed since ColdFusion 5 and indicate the specific release in which the change was made Each change might affect code that was written fo...

Page 34: ...oldFusion MX 7 All ColdFusion MX cfcache cacheDirectory timespan attributes ColdFusion MX Changes The action cache attribute caches on both the server and client and the cache and optimal values are e...

Page 35: ...e attribute gets the current values every time an exception is thrown and ColdFusion MX ignores any cfset assignment to a cfcatch member To remedy this construct a new message or variable to make exte...

Page 36: ...ext ColdFusion MX displays the header as true ColdFusion 5 displays the header as TRUE cfcollection categories attribute ColdFusion MX 7 New values of the language attribute categoryList value of acti...

Page 37: ...ry results but only subdirectories like on UNIX If your application has code to skip these rows for example startrow 3 you must change it Windows This tag no longer supports sort temporary and it only...

Page 38: ...ributes onReset event Changes ColdFusion MX ColdFusion MX only uses the cfinput tag s checked attribute if the corresponding form field value is undefined ColdFusion 5 used the checked attribute if th...

Page 39: ...tribute ColdFusion MX 7 Change ColdFusion MX ColdFusion MX still allows the proxyBypass attribute but it has no affect cffunction description attribute xml value for returnType attribute ColdFusion MX...

Page 40: ...ser proxyPassword attributes charset firstrowasheaders attributes The cfhttp response headers in ColdFusion MX differ from those in ColdFusion 5 as follows Mixed case returned by the server without ch...

Page 41: ...ight and width attributes all except checkbox and radio ColdFusion MX 7 bind attribute text and password label attribute all but radio button image reset and submit mask attribute text only validateAt...

Page 42: ...e LDAP server does not support server side sorting cfldap throws an error The sort order depends on the LDAP server for example iPlanet Directory Server 5 0 Novell 6 0 server Oracle Internet Directory...

Page 43: ...validCharInURLExceptio n if the CR LF characters are in the query string in ASCII or hexadecimal Changes ColdFusion MX The cflocation tag now appends cfid and cftoken along with JSessionId if enabled...

Page 44: ...butes ColdFusion MX 7 type attribute ColdFusion MX 6 1 cfmailpart All ColdFusion MX 6 1 cfNTauthenticate All ColdFusion MX 7 cfobject All ColdFusion MX cfobjectcache All ColdFusion MX cfparam min max...

Page 45: ...ref cursors into a result set Note you cannot use this method with the Oracle ThinClient JDBC drivers ColdFusion MX ignores the dbvarname attribute for all drivers ColdFusion 5 used it for Sybase Orac...

Page 46: ...lect FROM from popQuery ColdFusion MX measures the timeout value in seconds instead of milliseconds as in ColdFusion 5 You must convert each timeout value from milliseconds to seconds cfregistry Chang...

Page 47: ...MX 7 cfsearch category categoryTree status suggestions contextPassages contextBytes contextHighlightBegin contextHighlightEnd previousCriteria attributes ColdFusion MX 7 natural internet and internet...

Page 48: ...der attribute changed ColdFusion MX If you use the cftable header attribute without any text ColdFusion MX displays the header as true ColdFusion 5 displays the header as TRUE cftextarea All ColdFusio...

Page 49: ...attributes attribute ColdFusion MX cfform passthrough attribute ColdFusion MX 7 enableCAB attribute ColdFusion MX cfftp agentname attribute ColdFusion MX cfgraph All ColdFusion MX cfgraphdata All Cold...

Page 50: ...s ColdFusion MX cftextinput All ColdFusion MX 7 cfupdate connectString dbName dbServer dbtype provider providerDSN attributes ColdFusion MX Tag Attribute or value Obsolete as of this ColdFusion releas...

Page 51: ...ColdFusion MX cfsetting catchExceptionsByPattern attribute ColdFusion MX Function Parameter value or change Added in this ColdFusion release Comment ArrayAvg ArrayMin ArrayMax ArraySum Change ColdFus...

Page 52: ...returns the same value as the ww weeks datepart option DatePart L key of datepart parameter ColdFusion MX 6 1 Decrypt algorithm and encoding parameters ColdFusion MX 7 DeleteClientVariable Change Col...

Page 53: ...uestHeader All ColdFusion MX 7 GetSOAPResponse All ColdFusion MX 7 GetSOAPResponseHeader All ColdFusion MX 7 GetTempDirectory Change ColdFusion MX Windows This function returns the temporary directory...

Page 54: ...oldFusion MX When calculating a length a string processing function processes an ASCII 0 NUL character and continues to process subsequent characters of the string if any In ColdFusion 5 these functio...

Page 55: ...on MX This function supports full date and full datetime as parameters which include the name of the day LSParseDateTime Change ColdFusion MX For English US locales the following date mask format is o...

Page 56: ...classes such as upper lower alpha and so on These functions do not allow the backslash character in a regular expression even if it is inside a character class You must escape it by prefixing an addit...

Page 57: ...ixes alternate between escaping the code and not For backrefs they always escape ReleaseComObject All ColdFusion MX 6 1 SendGatewayMessage All ColdFusion MX 7 SetEncoding All ColdFusion MX StructKeyLi...

Page 58: ...rm All ColdFusion MX XmlTransform parameters parameter ColdFusion MX 7 XmlValidate All ColdFusion MX 7 Function Parameter or value Deprecated as of this ColdFusion release GetMetricData cachepops para...

Page 59: ...They do not work in releases later than ColdFusion 5 As of ColdFusion MX 7 you can create user defined functions that have the following names Function Parameter or value Obsolete as of this ColdFusi...

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