ColdFusion 8 - What's your upgrade experience been like?
For those of you who have already upgraded your production environments of CF 6.1 and/or CF 7 environments over to ColdFusion 8, or are in the process of doing so, what has the experience been like?
Have you had to make any code changes? What kind of performance gains have you received from the change? Was it as painless as they say? Or, did/have you had to make a lot of changes? How long of an effort?
How big is your site? How much traffic? Did you have any parts of your site that were concerns? What about integration points, like other non-database systems CF talks to, middleware, etc?
I'd like to hear from non-Adobe employees here, to get a somewhat impartial view. I am especially interested in hearing from developers supporting or developing enterprise-class applications.
http://www.brianmeloche.com/blog/trackback.cfm?27442DF7-3048-2E57-0A6658C7970F7B39
Mind you Adobe.com has been running on CF8 builds for months without any issues.
http://tinyurl.com/2gsa68
I would like to hear from more developers that have made or are making the upgrade on enterprise-level applications. I think a blog's a little too lightweight to be useful for me in this case.
I disabled all the CF7 services first (I did not uninstall), then simply ran the CF8 installer which migrated existing DSNs etc.
Everything works perfectly
We have begun the process of upgrading all of our test servers in an effort to support CF 8 for our next release of CommonSpot which is coming out in about 8 weeks. We will have more information but one thing to remember here is that for those applications which you have compiled Java applications for you should probably recompile them if you are planning on using the 1.6 JVM. Although the team at Adobe states that the speed increase is from the work they did it is clear that the 1.6 JVM will make a bigger difference. I will post more when we finish our first couple rounds of QA. Although, I will say that I have been demoing our new product release on CF8 beta for over a month and a half. Very impressed!
not installed during the upgrade from 7 to 8. Not sure how to get them installed either...any ideas?
we had a problem with the ODBC services too. I finally figured out I needed
to change ColdFusion back to run as System during the install/upgrade
instead of the user I had it running as. Hope this helps. If it does, please
let me know as I'll be upgrading several soon.
Report Builder: Some of the fonts I was using ont the reports e.g. Helvetica are no longer available. Also when I opened an existing report the fonts for some of the fields changed by themselves
and became smaller. When I tried fixing them the report builder would not accept the changes.
Flash File upload tag: I was using a flash file upload custom tag made by people at asfusion (http://www.asfusion.com/blog/entry/file-upload-wit...)
The 'Choose File' feature no longer works. The window that used to pop up to allow the user to select a file is no longer available. For me this is a big annoyance as I don't know of any other
way to upload files using the flash interface. It would have been nice if Adobe had just added a file upload functionality to the flash forms which in my estimation is not asking a great deal.
I am looking for a solution to fix this. So if anyone knows of any workarounds then pleassssssseee do let me know.
Thank you.
"This combination of license keys does not constitute a valid upgrade."
Adobe's "suggested solution" was to refund the upgrade price so that we could purchase the full version. Is anyone else having this problem?
I am upgrading from 7.0.2 to 8 and now still testing my application. My application is using <cfform format="flash">. I hope I won't hit the 32K problem in v8. So far I have encountered 6 issues:
(1) I have found a small issue with <cfreportparam>. In v7, I managed to pass a blank value for the tag's name, but in v8 they force you to enter a name for the tag.
In v7 is ok, but not in v8.
<cfset strName = "">
<cfreportparam name="#strName#">
(2) There is no much improvement in Report Builder. In v8, I have to re-adjust left-margin for all my reports. I don't know why, but all i know it's time consuming.
(3) Still in Report Builder. If you have sub-report, try to modify your main report. The Report Builder will automatically double sub-report Parameters. If you have 2 parameters, then it will add another 2 .. so you'll have 4.
(4) Still in Report Builder. Be careful if you use image object. In v8, the default background of the image is gray. So you need to make it transparent manually, otherwise you'll have a gray-colored background for your image.
(5) Still in Report Builder. Same Font problem as harkirat, I guess. But I don't have problem with the flash file upload.
(6) Still in Report Builder. In the v7, you won't encountered a problem when you have an Input Parameter with this setting:
Name: MyInputParameter
Default Label Text:
Data Type: String
Default Value: Test
In v8, you need to add double-quote-sign for your Default Value.
Name: MyInputParameter
Default Label Text:
Data Type: String
Default Value: "Test"
Those I have found so far.
Cheers,
Keiko
The blog entry below shows the exact issue we are having. Does any one know what may be causing this.
The server is not consuming much memory (194 MB out of max heap 512 MB, MaxPermGen = 192m).
Any ideas out there?
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread... /threadid:53419
Over all our upgrade experience has been smooth. Mostly all of our issues have been related to our upgrade to SQL Server 2005 on a different machine.