Luis Majano |
January
27,
2015
In ColdBox 4 we have expanded the runEvent() method to allow you to add caching parameters so ColdBox can take care of caching output from events. This is a great way to accelerate the execution of widgets or viewlets within an application as it will execute them and cache them as needed. Here is the new signature for the runEvent() method.
Brad Wood |
January
23,
2015
In tandem with our ColdBox 4.0 release, we are publishing major releases of the core Box libraries as well:
Luis Majano |
December
18,
2013
It is a happy day here at Ortus Solutions as we bring you yet again a plethora of releases of all our major open source libraries. This is the culmination of over 6 months of hard work to get you updates for all of our major open source libraries and even a new library, TestBox. You can read more about our releases in our engineering blog:
Luis Majano |
December
18,
2013
We are proud to announce CacheBox version 1.6.0. You can read our What's new with CacheBox 1.6 to get a better idea of this release.
Luis Majano |
October
30,
2013
We are very excited to partner up with the great folks at Couchbase to bring you an awesome webinar on November 19th, 2013. Myself, Brad and Tug will be presenting on the amazing features of the Couchbase NoSQL server and how it can be leveraged for scalability with CFML applications. Here is a synopsis of the webinar:
Luis Majano |
October
02,
2013
We are very excited to announce our second online course available for both ColdBox and ContenBox Modular CMS thanks to our annual conference CBDW2013: http://www.udemy.com/coldbox-platform-developer-week-2013/.
Brad Wood |
August
28,
2013
So far in this series, we’ve introduced you to Couchbase Server and showed you how to set up a cache cluster. Then we covered using that cluster as an ORM Secondary Cache as well as connecting to it through our open source CacheBox Provider. Today, we’re going to show how to get the deepest integration yet for those of you running Railo’s Open Source CFML server via our upcoming Ortus Railo Couchbase Extension. Our extension will allow you to leverage Couchbase directly from Railo as a caching engine, but also as a storage container for session or even client scope variables. The extension also introduces several native ColdFusion functions that will allow you to interact with Couchbase directly from CFML code for your NoSQL or Caching needs. So let's get to it and start off by introducing our extension.
CFML has a set of cache-related functions that allow you to set and retrieve objects from an application cache. Adobe ColdFusion uses EHCache, an in-process Java caching solution. Railo, the open source CFML engine, also can use EHCache, but they went a step further and introduced a pluggable cache architecture that allows you to write a Java adapter class that will connect to any underlying caching engine; much how CacheBox works but right into the engine.
Railo also allows these caches to be used for session or client storage as an added bonus. This is extremely handy if you have a farm of load balanced web servers and you want to use session storage without using session replication or enabling sticky sessions on your load balancer. By configuring your session storage to use an out-of-process distributed cache you are allowing your site to scale out easily since the application servers won't be taxed with storing session data for all your users in their in-process heap. It will also allow for your session information to survive server restarts and provide a much better user experience for your application. Lastly, it can allow your load balancers to run round-robin algorithms instead of the typical sticky session approach. This will bring a much more stable cluster farm where load can be distributed evenly and without user segregation.
Couchbase is not only an amazing caching solution but also a NoSQL database, as we have seen throughout our series. Having the capabilities to interact with it easily via CFML was our next step of introducing several native CFML functions thanks to Railo's extension architecture. This is where we come in. We here at Ortus Solutions have developed a commercial extension for Railo Server that adds Couchbase support for the native cache functions, as well as query/template/function caches, session/client storage and native CFML functions for NoSQL integration. This extension is built on top of the Couchbase Java SDK and truly gives you low-level access to the power of Couchbase Server.
Brad Wood |
August
16,
2013
In our previous posts, we covered how to get Couchbase installed and set up your first cluster. Then we showed you how to use Couchbase for an ORM secondary cache. Now it’s time to showcase our Couchbase CacheBox provider that we released just a few days ago. This is a CFML provider that uses the Java SDK for Couchbase and lets you create one or more named caches in CacheBox that connects to one or more buckets in a Couchbase cluster. Once you connect up CacheBox, you can seamlessly also store ColdBox Platform cached events/views in Couchbase along with anything else you use the CacheBox API for. So basically you have full Couchbase storage capabilities from ColdBox and non-ColdBox applications. Let’s get started!
The CacheBox Couchbase provider does not ship with the ColdBox core, but can be found in our community repository; ForgeBox. You can use this provider in any installation of CacheBox that is bundled with the ColdBox Platform, or in a standalone installation. Here’s some handy links for you:
