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Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi, I am getting the following error message as I try to install the Trial version of ColdFusion 2025 GUI WWEJ Win64 on a Windows Server 2025 (VMware) : "This application has Unexpecedly Quit Invocation of this Java Application has cause an Invocation T...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel uses an Alpine.js directive to drive keyboard-based form focus. This allows for easy focus without accessibility concerns....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi,i use this code in CF2023<cfscript>
params = {
field1 = true
};
foo(args=params);
void function foo(required struct args) {
if (arguments.args?.field2) {
writeOutput("entra");
} else {
writeOutput("non entra");
}
}
</cfscript>
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel discusses his strategy of adding Open Graph images to Big Sexy Poems while minimizing the attack vector created by dynamic image generation in ColdFusion.... ...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Let me start, I do know about the changes in Update 14 related to "extra" arguments, and this is not the same issue, but I think it might be related. The error is that a paramerter can not be found when making a call to a remote function in a CFC.
Here is th...
Lucee Blog
I'm currently testing with Lucee 7.0.0.395, and everything has been running smoothly. We'd like to bring one of our servers into production, but we need to upgrade it from 6.2.0.321 to 7.0.0.395 first.
Our current 6.2 setup is running on Windows Server 2019 with Apache Tomcat ...
Lucee Blog
Howdy Lucee community!
I've been working on a project I'm excited to share: LuCLI (Lucee Command Line Interface, pronounced "Luc...
FusionReactor
As FusionReactor celebrates its 20-year anniversary, we're shining a spotlight on the people who helped shape our journey — the thinkers, builders, problem-solvers, and teammates who poured passion and possibility into every version, release, and breakthrough. Today, we're celebrating Bernd...
Ortus Solutions
In this episode of the Modernize or Die Podcast, hosts Daniel Garcia and Jacob Beers discuss the latest updates from Ortus Solutions
Lucee Blog
I'm using a docker image (6.2.2.91-nginx) to create a lucee server. I've got a pre-defined .CFConfig.json file that is used to configure the Lucee instance, which is copied to the deploy location when the container is built. This all works fine.
I would like to specify a passw...
FusionReactor
Learn how AI-powered performance troubleshooting reduces MTTR from hours to minutes. See real-world microservices root cause analysis using OpsPilot's natural language observability.
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Ortus Solutions
The wait is over! We're excited to officially launch CBWIRE 5, the most powerful version of our server-powered reactive UI framework yet, and you're invited to the live reveal!...
Ortus Solutions
Are you tired of staring at endless, unreadable stack traces when exceptions hit your ColdBox app? There's a better way to handle exceptions, especially during development, and it's called Whoops!...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi,I've posted here before.If you've read any of my requests for help, you know I am not a programmer.I have a 10-year-old PC that is about to die. I have Dreamweaver CS 5.5 installed on it. Even if I could find my license key (I think I can), I cannot get the ins...
Ortus Solutions
Welcome back to our series on SocketBox - a websocket module for CommandBox + BoxLang. this is part 2 of a 4 part series about the SocketBox library.
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel explores the generation of dynamic Open Graph images for Big Sexy Poems in ColdFusion....
Lucee Blog
I set up lucee 7.0.0.395 - The original site ran fine.
added 3 more through IIS and the custom tags for the first site are being pulled into the others.
I tried installing a new instance of Lucee 7.0.0.395 installed into a new directory. Admin pages for both work and I chang...
WRIS Web Services
If you’re looking for a way to combine powerful back-end performance with a flexible, content-rich front end, the answer might be simpler than you think. By using WordPress as the front end and ColdFusion as the back end, teams can create a hybrid solution that delivers the best of both wor...
Lucee Blog
Hi,
has anyone worked with Lucee and MSSQL Server using Always Encrypted columns?
I can't get the datasource to work after encrypting the column. My CFML app gives me this error: 'byte[] com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.AuthenticationJNI.DecryptColumnEnc...
FusionReactor
It’s Monday morning. You’re halfway through your first coffee when Slack explodes: “Customers can’t complete checkouts!” “Payment processing is down!” “Revenue is dropping – how bad is this?” Your heart rate spikes. Every minute of downt...
Lucee Blog
After upgrading from the previous stable (6.2.2.91) to the current (6.2.3.35) I immediately saw certain values stored in session being lost after about 2 minutes under the following conditions:
Clustered session storage in a database
The lost values wer...
Lucee Blog
How to reproduce:
Open Lucee Admin Overview
Enter a label for a web context
Click Update button
Expected: Form submits, page reloads, label is displayed
Actual: Form submits, page reloads, label reverts to hash value
...
Lucee Blog
How to reproduce:
Open Lucee Admin Overview
Enter a label for a web context
Click Update button
Expected: Form submits, page reloads, label is saved
Actual: Form submits, page reloads, label is NOT saved
OS: ...
Lucee Blog
I've run into an issue with ReEscape() in Lucee where the output does not match Adobe ColdFusion's behavior, particularly when the input contains Emoji or other non-BMP Unicode characters. See attached examples.
I have a workaround in place us...
Ortus Solutions
Like most in the CFML community, I'd heard about serverless for years but never dived into it for a host of reasons. One of these ( and a pretty major one! ) was an irrational avoidance of all things Java and being used to the ease of spinning up a CFML instance at other hosting locations.
However, ...
FusionReactor
This December, FusionReactor celebrates an incredible milestone — 20 years of innovation, teamwork, and evolution. To mark the occasion, we're sitting down with some of the people who've shaped our story from the very beginning. Today, we're taking a trip …
Lucee Blog
OS: Windows Server 2022 (8 Core, 32gb)
Java Version: OpenJDK 11.0.26
Tomcat Version: 11.0.9
Lucee Version: 6.2.2.91
Hi All - we had a user report an occurrence of the error above. We've not encount...
Lucee Blog
OS: Windows Server 2022 (8 Core, 32gb)
Java Version: OpenJDK 11.0.26
Tomcat Version: 11.0.9
Lucee Version: 6.2.2.91
Hi All - we had a user report an occurrence of the error above. We've not encount...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello all, I am having an issue with ColdFusion 2023 where exporting to Excel only fails when the AppDynamics Java Agent is enabled. As soon as I add this JVM argument -javaagent:C:\AppDynamics\JavaAgent\ver25.6.0.37159\javaagent.jarmy excel export fai...
Lucee Blog
Several of the API's we have to use require us to make http requests where we have to take files, convert them from binary to base 64, and embed them in JSON documents. The size of these files are typically arbitrary. In certain situations the files are large enough that we can run...
Hoya Haxa: A Security Research Blog
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Typing # gives ## - fine for writing code but not for editing. How do I turn it off.
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to install a custom font for ColdFusion CFImage using both a CommandBox Docker image and a Windows VPS....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
We're getting an error running a CF scheduled task. The error says "Attribute validation error for tag CFSTOREDPROC.-It does not allow the attribute(s) DBTYPE.The valid attribute(s) are BLOCKFACTOR,CACHEDAFTER,CACHEDWITHIN,CACHEID,CACHEREGION,CLIENTINFO,DATASOURCE,DBPOOL,DEBUG, FETCHC...
Lucee Blog
It appears that the sortOrder parameter to arraySort() is being ignored when I use a closure function. Here's a gist:
...
Lucee Blog
I've created a JIRA issue to cover this: Jira
But essentially, we're seeing a reappearance of class loader issues where classes get reloaded into the code cache repeatedly and never cleared....
FusionReactor
When your checkout fails at 2 AM, do you want an alert or an answer? Traditional monitoring tools excel at telling you something is wrong. They’ll send alerts, show red dashboards, and spike your error rate graphs. But they leave …
Lucee Blog
Do you know if the vscode-coldbox extension for VS Code is still functional? How do you use it?
I've tried several times without success. Alternatively, are there any other good extensions for CFML available?
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use utility methods to generate matching "id" and "for" attributes (as well as "aria-describedby" attributes) in a ColdFusion form.... ...
Lucee Blog
Just completed another little weekend update for docs.
Some CFML tags have a lot of actions and attributes, I have introduced some attribute groups to make the documentation much clearer, I hope you find it useful
For example, <CFLOOP> has a whole h...
Lucee Blog
Long story short I'd like to upvote this ticket from 8 years ago
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
This coming Monday, Nov 10 2025, marks the end of Adobe support of CF2021. After that date, Adobe is no longer obligated to offer updates for ColdFusion 2021 (not even security updates--and buying "extended support" DOES NOT CHANGE that!)
There's ...
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Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I've gone through multiple rounds of installing Windows Server 2022 and following the Lockdown guide to install ColdFusion 2025 and AutoLockdown. Just can't get it to work, have lost a lot of time, and losing hope. Initially I couldn't get it to create the service user for me. ...
Lucee Blog
Moved from Jira ticket to here For more discussion
[LDEV-5674] switch to jakarta mail - Lucee
Are we going to see more features exposed with this update?
async supp...
Lucee Blog
Just to make sure: The documentation doesn't match the functions?
James Moberg
After generating a ColdFusion function for MessagePack encoding and decoding, I started seeing articles regarding optimizing data for use with LLMs called "TOON". TOON stands for "Token-Oriented Object Notation" and is lightweight data format optimized fo...
Ortus Solutions
With the release of BoxLang 1.7, our primary focus has been on improving the performance of our parser and bytecode generation pipeline. This article presents a comparison of BoxLang's compilation performance against the current CFML engines. Future benchmarks will include other languages under simi...
Lucee Blog
I'm very happy to report flawless migration from 6.2 to 7 using fresh install then copying over my .CFConfig.json from the 6.2 backup, restoring AJP secret and ModCFML shared key from Apache into server.xml, etc.
I noticed it was bundled with Java 21.
I was interested i...
Lucee Blog
I'm very happy to report flawless migration from 6.2 to 7 using fresh install then copying over my .CFConfig.json from the 6.2 backup, restoring AJP secret and ModCFML shared key from Apache into server.xml, etc.
I noticed it was bundled with Java 21.
I was interested i...
Lucee Blog
I've been using the MariaDB extension, but now with the JDBC Driver Updates mentioned in Lucee 7 new features, is that still recommended vs the MySQL extension?
OS: AlmaLinux ...
Lucee Blog
We went from 6.2.0.321 to 6.2.3.35 and saw a huge decrease in performance. Downgraded this morning back to 6.2.0.321 and all is back to normal. We also are testing with 6.2.2.91 and seeing the same performance issues.
4 posts - 2 participants
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Ortus Solutions
Modernize or Die Podcast #244: Recap, Transcript and Resources!
In this episode of the Modernize or Die Podcast, hosts Daniel Garcia and Grant Copley discuss the latest updates from Ortus Solutions, including the release of ColdBox 8 and BoxLang 1.7. They explore new features, real-time communicatio...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello Community,I have inheritted some ColdFusion servers (2021). That has been running great so far but recently, I encountered an odd issue with one of the servers. The issue is that the server stopped processing requests on all instances, whether from websites, APIs, etc. I have tr...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Let me start, I do know about the changes in Update 14 related to "extra" arguments, and this is not the same issue, but I think it might be related. The error is that a paramerter can not be found when making a call to a remote function in a CFC. Here is the ...
FusionReactor
This December marks an extraordinary milestone: FusionReactor celebrates 20 years of revolutionizing application performance monitoring. What began in 2005 as a troubleshooting tool has evolved into a comprehensive observability platform trusted by organizations worldwide. But the real story isn&...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi, all. I will be installing CF2023 side-by-side with CF2021 on an important server soon, and I have some questions related to my particular situation that I have not been able to answer by searching the Web: In the CF2023 Administrator, in Package Manager -> Set...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello, everyone. About a week ago, our SA and DBA started a migration from CF2021 to CF2023, we are experiencing a couple of odd issues, and the weird thing is - it's limited to just one project. No other projects are experiencing these issues. The issue is in our c...
Ortus Solutions
The BoxLang team is thrilled to announce the release of BoxLang 1.7.0, a landmark update that brings powerful new capabilities for modern web development, distributed systems, and AI-powered applications. This release introduces Server-Sent Events (SSE) for real-time streaming, a JDBC Cache Store fo...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi,We are experiencing this cache issue, we have 4 instances and one instance, we have this issue, We manually cleared the cache and uncheck all the cache options and restarted the service but still we got issue, Any help would be greatly...
Gregory's Blog
In this article, I will demonstrate how to create a sophisticated map with routing between multiple points. I will also show you how to create map controls and walk you through the complete code....
Lucee Blog
I saw this in the latest 6.2.3.35 Stable changelog:
"extension defined in cfconfig need a restart to work"
But testing this I don't see that behavior.
To work around this in earlier versions I've been adding "checkForChanges": true to my cfconfig which seems to ...
Lucee Blog
The Lucee Team is proud to announce our latest major release 7.0
Lucee 7.0 is faster at runtime and deploying, with improved AI and Java integration, removes multi mode and switches to being a native Jakarta Servlet application.
Lucee Blog
I just noticed, the Lucee release 7 is marked as stable - woooo!
As the Upgrade by Lucee admin is not shown and the "old"-Append in the URL didn't work, i rebuild my docker container and lucee started, thats nice! On the first look, the performance is stunning!
I migrated ...
ColdFusion
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Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel looks at what a native "Maybe" data type might look like in ColdFusion....
ColdFusion
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Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the "pageshow" event to re-enable a form when the user navigates back to it using the browser's back button....
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel does a shallow dive on "enableNullSupport" in Adobe ColdFusion and feels that it adds unnecessary complexity....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I have been trying to download 3023 and 2025 versions of ColdFusion, but have been unable to. The download link takes me to a trial form: https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/down...
Ortus Solutions
October 2025 was a wild ride at Ortus. We released ColdBox 8.0.0, The Ocho, a version that redefines CFML architecture from REST APIs to full-stack microservices. At the same time, BoxLang evolved with bx-ldap, bringing connection pooling and event-driven authentication for enterprise environments, ...
Ortus Solutions
We're thrilled to announce the release of bx-compat-ui, a comprehensive UI compatibility module that makes migrating your Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee applications to BoxLang seamless and straightforward. If you've been hesitant about moving to BoxLang because of your existing UI components, this modu...
Ortus Solutions
We're thrilled to announce the release of bx-rss, a comprehensive RSS and Atom feed module that brings powerful syndication capabilities to BoxLang! Whether you're building a content aggregator, publishing a podcast, or exposing your application's data as feeds, bx-rss makes it incredibly simple....
Lucee Blog
Sorry for the somewhat trivial question... but for parallel functions (.each() .some() ...), is the resulting sorting guaranteed to be correct?
Or do I have to worry about my software guaranteeing it?
I've done some testing on large datasets, and the sorting is always c...
Lucee Blog
Sorry for the somewhat trivial question... but for parallel functions (.each() .some() ...), is the resulting sorting guaranteed to be correct?
Or do I have to worry about my software guaranteeing it?
I've done some testing on large datasets, and the sorting is always c...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi,The issue I have is that I have a bunch of emails that were undelivered because the password of the email addresse used for CFMail was changed. I was not aware of the problem for a day or so. So, there a bunch of undelivered emails. I am able to update the passwo...
Ortus Solutions
We're thrilled to announce the release of the BoxLang Redis Module (bx-redis) - a powerful addition to BoxLang that brings enterprise-grade Redis functionality directly into your applications. Whether you're building distributed systems, implementing real-time messaging, or need high-performance cac...
Ortus Solutions
We're thrilled to announce the release of bx-csv, a powerful premium module that brings enterprise-grade CSV processing capabilities to BoxLang+ subscribers! Built on Apache Commons CSV, this module provides both traditional functions and a modern, fluent API that makes working with CSV files a bree...
Ortus Solutions
We're thrilled to announce the release of the BoxLang Spreadsheet Module (bx-spreadsheet), a comprehensive solution for creating, reading, and manipulating Excel spreadsheets with style and simplicity. Whether you're building data export features, generating reports, or migrating from legacy CFML ap...
Lucee Blog
Hi there,
The previous topic that dealt with this issue (https://dev.lucee.org/t/s3-extension-stops-working/14214/20) no longer comes up. So, I'm going to have another go at this!
OS: Windows Server ...
James Moberg
MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. But it's faster and smaller. It's supported by over 50 programming languages and environments, but not ColdFusion... until now....
ColdFusion
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Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to fix an accidental named-submission behavior by including a hidden submit button at the top of your form....
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