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.

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">

During last Sotr I was talking with Mark Drew and Micheal Offner-Streit ( the Railo cto )  and we discovered one of the many gems hidden into Railo engine.

Any cf developer has always fight with the missing support for a linked hash map in cfml. This lack has made a task  keeping a struct in a defined order. In railo you can simple do this:

<cfset str = structNew('linked') />

What you have now is a struct 100% similar to a normal struct that has the whole capabilities of a linked hash map. For example the map keep the elements into an ordered stack.

You can read more in the railo wiki docs.

As you can read from the official Railo Blog the Amazon S3 extension will now be free to download and will be soon moved into the Railo core package. 
This is an amazing news from Railo and just one of the extra feature Railo will add in the next future.

So let's stay tuned!!!