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Ortus Solutions
Discover the Future of JVM Development at DevBCN 2025 with Ortus Solutions
Ortus Solutions is proud to announce its participation as a sponsor at DevBCN 2025, one of Europe's premier software development conferences. We'll be showcasing BoxLang, our next-generation JVM language designed to empower d...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel looks at one way to use ColdFusion custom tags and CFModules in a CFWheels application....
Lucee Blog
I have a usual website and created a folder "api". You login and get a JWT Bearer-Token to access the (jsons-) endpoints A,B,C,... Nothing special so far.
But for each request to the endpoints, there will be a new session created, as we only get the JWT Bearer Token and not th...
FusionReactor
Imagine this: you’re in the middle of a packed workday when your server suddenly crashes. Everything grinds to a halt. You’re now racing against the clock to find out what happened—and get your systems back online as quickly as possible. …
Gregory's Blog
Galaxie Blog 4.07 supports Azure static maps and direction routing as well as fixing many bugs due to the most recent Adobe ColdFusion update.
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Ortus Solutions
Smarter Software Starts Here
In today's fast-moving digital landscape, efficiency and data-driven decision-making aren't just advantages — they're essential.
That's why Ortus Solutions is proud to launch Ortus AI, a new line of AI consulting and development services designed to help you:
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Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel looks at how to implement Service objects in the CFWheels ColdFusion framework....
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel creates an Alpine.js pixel art exploration....
Lucee Blog
Hi, I'm trying to debug some application errors, but the cgi.referer is always listed as a http-nio-8888-exec-x (x= a number) I am not able to see the actual referring page.
Anything I can do to get the actual referrer?
Don't forget to tell us about your stack!...
ColdFusion
Hello, I can’t connect to SQL Server Express in CF Admin. I’m on SQL Server login and I’ve enabled TCP/IP in the Configurator. Are other people having issues with SQL Server Express? Pete...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello - Developer edition of CF 2025 running locally on a Mac (OS = Sequoia 15.5). DMG installer. A CFQuery to an MS SQL Server datasource produces this error message: 'Error Executing Database Query. The sqlserver package is not installed. You can install the package through the CLI package ...
Lucee Blog
Debugger (or monitoring) in this version is adding results to response of functions that have returnformat="JSON" and access="remote"; and that is breaking that return format JSON resulting in many errors. This makes debugger useless, as it can't be used (in comparison to the version...
FusionReactor
We’re thrilled to announce that FusionReactor has once again dominated the G2 Summer 2025 rankings, earning an impressive 38 awards across multiple categories. This achievement continues our remarkable track record of excellence, building upon similar recognitions we’ve received over ...
Lucee Blog
Firstly, what's the controller thread? It's a background process in Lucee which
cleans up temp files
validates pooled jdbc and http connections
expires sessions and applications
polls the deploy directory
and a range of other things
Lucee Blog
I've got tired of being asking about long running controller threads, so I've added in some additional logging
https://luceeserver.atlassian.net/browse/LDEV-5670
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Lucee Blog
We're seeing
"INFO","Controller","06/25/2025","20:07:07","controller","controller took 28481ms to execute successfully."
every few hours in the combined application log.
I'm fairly sure we don't have an application named "contr...
Hoya Haxa: A Security Research Blog
IntroductionIn this post I'm going to cover the technical details of a security sandbox escape technique that affects Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee Server. These vulnerabilities are tracked as
Hoya Haxa: A Security Research Blog
In May I had the pleasure of attending my first CFCamp, where I spoke about CFML security.
Lucee Blog
I'm using Docker in development, on a Mac (base image lucee/lucee:6.2-nginx).
When I load the Lucee admin page, the browser is consistently taking over 20 seconds to load any request to /lucee/admin/server.cfm. This includes the main page, as well as any xhr reque...
Lucee Blog
I've run into an issue in Lucee 5-7 which differs from ACF and seems like a bug to me related to how safe operators are working.
In the following code, I would expect the call to shouldThrowError() to return an exception, because throwError() will alw...
FusionReactor
Adobe's ColdFusion 2025 Update 2 introduces not only security fixes and bug resolutions, but also two new JVM flags that provide developers with more control over remote method behavior and system probe execution. In this post, we'll explain what these …
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi Experts,We recently upgraded our ColdFusion 2023 environment from Update 10 to Update 12. After the upgrade, we encountered an issue in one of our applications that handles PDF uploads and validation.Previously, we used the IsPDFObject(mytempPDFObj)
Ortus Solutions
We're excited to announce the release of BVM (BoxLang Version Manager) v1.14, bringing significant enhancements that make BoxLang development even more seamless and productive. What's crazy is that we have already released 14 minor versions of this amazing little version manager. This release introd...
Lucee Blog
For anyone testing their Coldbox app on Lucee 7, you will likely encounter an invalid syntax, variables are not supported error on boot. This is due to this breaking change in Lu...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
Today begins the first of several live hour-long presentations over the next few days as part of Adobe ColdFusion Dev Week, which I also blogged more about on the Adobe CF portal.
I want to announce here that I will be offering the first talk of t...
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FusionReactor
Multi-Party Computation (MPC) servers are emerging as critical infrastructure for organizations that require collaborative analytics without compromising data privacy. In the observability space, these specialized servers enable a new paradigm: gaining collective insights from distributed systems...
FusionReactor
Multi-Party Computation (MPC) servers are emerging as critical infrastructure for organizations that require collaborative analytics without compromising data privacy. In the observability space, these specialized servers enable a new paradigm: gaining collective insights from distributed systems...
Ortus Solutions
We're thrilled to announce the release of BoxLang v1.3.0! This significant update brings exciting new features, substantial performance improvements, and critical bug fixes that will enhance your development workflow and application reliability....
Pete Freitag
The recent ColdFusion security hotfix that changed searchImplicitScopes defaults has been keeping developers busy fixing unscoped variables. This can be pretty tedious, and not all variables technically need a scope (such as...
ColdFusion
Adobe ColdFusion Devweek 2025 starts today, June 23 2025. While it has been announced in other places, I noticed there was no blog post here which is where some might seek it out. First up on today, June 23, is a free day-long online workshop, “ColdFusion: From Fundamentals to Advanced Develop...
Lucee Blog
Hi there!
We recently updated our dev environment to the latest version of Lucee. In this context, we've also updated the underlying JVM and Tomcat versions.
Setup now:
OS: Debian 6.1.0-22-amd64
Java Version: 21.0.7 (Eclipse ...
Lucee Blog
Hi there!
We recently updated our dev environment to the latest version of Lucee. In this context, we've also updated the underlying JVM and Tomcat versions.
Setup now:
OS: Debian 6.1.0-22-amd64
Java Version: 21.0.7 (Eclipse ...
Lucee Blog
Hi there!
We recently updated our dev environment to the latest version of Lucee. In this context, we've also updated the underlying JVM and Tomcat versions.
Setup now:
OS: Debian 6.1.0-22-amd64
Java Version: 21.0.7 (Eclipse ...
FusionReactor
In today's security-conscious environment, authentication isn't just a technical requirement—it's a core component of maintaining system integrity and trust. For the FusionReactor community, where reliability and control are paramount, our latest update brings meaningful improvements design...
FusionReactor
In today's security-conscious environment, authentication isn't just a technical requirement—it's a core component of maintaining system integrity and trust. For the FusionReactor community, where reliability and control are paramount, our latest update brings meaningful improvements design...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
If I leave my page long enough for the user login session to timeout, then reload the page, I get an HTML rendering of the page. Then if I reload it again, the page renders normally. It happens on at least two pages I have tested so far. Firefox gives an engimatic error "Syntax...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel explores Sortable.js as a way to create effortless drag-and-drop experiences on the web....
Gregory's Blog
Hi all, I have found several bugs after the most recent Adobe updates and will try to address them in the next update.
Lucee Blog
Just letting people know that currently copilot paid versions (which is cheap as chips) have FREE overage. I'm clocking $10 a day in overage fees (for thousands of requests) that I dont have to pay while it's in preview (not really preview IMHO, but anyway.
In other words you ...
Pete Freitag
Recently I was testing a client's rate limiting configuration, so I needed to send a bunch of requests to a URL within a short period of time to see if it was working properly. I wrote up a quick bash script to loop from 1 to 20 with curl requests and sleeping for a short period between each req...
Ortus Solutions
We're excited to announce the release of BoxLang AI v1.2, a major update to the BoxLang AI module that powers intelligent applications with a unified AI abstraction layer across even more providers: OpenAI, Claude, Grok, Gemini, and more. This release packs new features for providers, tools, debuggi...
Lucee Blog
Hi I'm trying to get the Directory Watcher working I haven't changed any of the default CFC files yet as just wanted to get the basic thing working first.
So far I have create a Gateway instance and it says it's running But If I make any changes to the watched folder I can't s...
FusionReactor
As developers, we’ve all been there – that sinking feeling when a performance issue that wasn’t caught in testing brings down production. What if you could have the same powerful monitoring capabilities in your development environment that you rely on …
FusionReactor
As developers, we’ve all been there – that sinking feeling when a performance issue that wasn’t caught in testing brings down production. What if you could have the same powerful monitoring capabilities in your development environment that you rely on …
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I'm curious if anyone testing out cf2025, that uses CKeditor has figured out what to do about the out of date messages that it produces when using ckeditor? I will probably just convert them all to regular text areas, its just pretty annoying how its not up to date with cf2025. ...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use two's complement to allow Adobe ColdFusion to cast FFFFFFFF to a Java signed int....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi All,Hoping someone can provide some pointers to solve this.I was successfully running on CF2023 update 11 but when I went to update 14 Apache Tomcat mod_jk connector stopped working - i've reverted back to update 11 and it still doesn't work - the browser returns 403 Forbidden
Ortus Solutions
Our participation is more than a presence, it is a commitment to represent El Salvador's growing influence in the global tech ecosystem and to inspire others to embrace modern software practices.
This invitation is a recognition of our contributions to open source and a reminder of the importance of...
Lucee Blog
Having a seniors moment, but was there ever a fileRename function?
There is a directory rename function... do we just use fileMove then fileDelete?
Chris
Lucee 6.2/7 series...
1 post - 1 participant
Lucee Blog
Having a seniors moment, but was there ever a fileRename function?
There is a directory rename function... do we just use fileMove then fileDelete?
Chris
Lucee 6.2/7 series...
4 posts - 2 participants
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates that Adobe ColdFusion can seamlessly access struct keys that contain dots (while other CFML engines require bracket-notation).... ...
Lucee Blog
Hi, after some time I have noticed a problem.
Since I updated to version 6.2.1.122 I have noticed a problem with cfmail.
When I send via localhost everything works fine, while sending via external SMTP server gives me a SASL login authentication error
The...
Lucee Blog
Hi, after some time I have noticed a problem.
Since I updated to version 6.2.1.122 I have noticed a problem with cfmail.
When I send via localhost everything works fine, while sending via external SMTP server gives me a SASL login authentication error
The...
Ortus Solutions
We're excited to announce the release of BVM (BoxLang Version Manager), a powerful new tool that makes managing multiple BoxLang installations effortless across Mac, Linux, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Whether you're a BoxLang developer working on multiple projects or testing across differ...
Ortus Solutions
ColdBox 19th Anniversary, 7.4 Highlights, and 8.x Preview
As we celebrate 19 years of ColdBox, it's a great time to look at where we are today and what exciting updates are ahead. From major enhancements in the 7.x series to the upcoming ColdBox 8 and deeper BoxLang integration, we're building ...
Lucee Blog
This is a minor LTS release, performance wise, it's really worth upgrading to Lucee 6.2 which will be our next LTS release.
Lucee Blog
Hey everyone, we just published the final release candidate for 6.2.2
This is a minor release, focussed on addressing bugs and improving stability.
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
We installed HF 20 on our CF 2021 instance (from HF 19) and saw "Security violation: Scheduled task 'XXX' attempted to execute unauthorized path: F:/Tasks_Logs/xxx.log. To allow it, whitelist the path in cf-root/lib/pathfilter.json against key schedulerexecutionpat...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel shares his Adobe ColdFusion 2025 hackathon project: "Sitter Snacks", a food menu system for dog sitters and baby sitters....
Ortus Solutions
On June 20–21, Ortus Solutions and BoxLang are proud to return as Gold Sponsors of Open South Code 2025, one of the premier open source events in Europe, hosted in Málaga, Spain.
Our continued support of this event reflects our strong commitment to the open source ecosystem, software inno...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
In our Coldfusion application there is a PDF form (created in Adobe Professional) that contains a QR code field. The QR code reflects Field X of the form.When I make changes to X in Adobe Professional, a corresponding QR code is printed into the form. However, if I fill out Field X using Co...
FusionReactor
Many developers have struggled with the limitations of RAG systems in production environments. You ask your monitoring AI a specific question about an error, and it returns generic troubleshooting steps that miss your application’s unique context. Here’s how the industry …
FusionReactor
Many developers have struggled with the limitations of RAG systems in production environments. You ask your monitoring AI a specific question about an error, and it returns generic troubleshooting steps that miss your application’s unique context. Here’s how the industry …
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi experts, I have an issue with the font size in a pdf file that was generated by .cfm files. With the same .cfm files and .css ( baaically the codes are identical), the font size in the generated report pdf file looks different in UAT and production. I am thinking that i...
Lucee Blog
Am I the only person using the awesome GitHub - jcberquist/aws-cfml: Lucee/ColdFusion library for interacting with AWS API's ?
We've made a few improvements that seem like w...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates one way to work around a namespaced Model bug in the CFWheels ORM when pulling back nested resources in ColdFusion....
Lucee Blog
I've been running into an issue with almost daily lucee restarts. This particular server stack:
OS: Windows Server 2019 Standard
Java Version: 21.0.6 (Eclipse Adoptium) 64bit
Tomcat Version: Apache Tomcat/9.0.62
Ortus Solutions
If you missed Into the Box 2025, you can now catch up on all the action with on-demand access to every session from Day 1 and Day 2, now available as a premium series on CFCasts. This year's conference explored everything from BoxLang and ColdBox to AI tools and cutting-edge workflows, with content ...
ColdFusion
Need some help here. Thanks in advance. I have these 2 files. t1.cfm cflocation to t2.cfm and end at t2.cfm. If I ran as https://www.skillon.com/cflocation/t1.cfm it works as expected i.e stop at t2.cfm display “Hello world”. You will see some screen...
Ortus Solutions
The future of development isn't about choosing a single platform or runtime—it's about embracing the dynamic nature of our ever-evolving digital landscape. My presentation "BoxLang - The Future is Dynamic" from DevNexus 2025 is now available on YouTube, and I'm excited to share why B...
Lucee Blog
If this has been addressed, my apologies. I found a posting The State of Lucee - #9 by Igal that may or may not have moved forward. Having said that ...
Encoding a string to base64 is a bree...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates a dumpModel() UDF that he uses in his CFWheels ColdFusion application to reduce the noise in a CFDump....
Lucee Blog
Updated everything on my site recently and started getting lots of errors around invalid dates.
IsDate() does not seem to be working:
<cfif isdate("09/31/1954")>
true
false
This returns true but September only ...
Lucee Blog
Hi. I do have some hurry on this, so thanks for the help.
I do have a website called website.
In this site I call some cfc stored in other directory called componentesIA.
From website I can call to this CFC by a mapping on the ser...
Lucee Blog
Hi all, we're looking into using Duck DB or Motherduck as a database for a large storage for static data, i.e. an logistics dashboard system showing logistical data on a map and such. Duck DB (or Motherduck) is very good at quickly serving static data. As such it needs a datasource c...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel isolates and reproduces an imagePaste() bug in Lucee CFML....
FusionReactor
With the release of ColdFusion Update 2, Adobe has introduced a subtle but significant change to how remote CFC methods handle parameters. If you’re not ready for it, this change could break your API integrations or client calls. If you’re …
FusionReactor
With the release of ColdFusion Update 2, Adobe has introduced a subtle but significant change to how remote CFC methods handle parameters. If you’re not ready for it, this change could break your API integrations or client calls. If you’re …
Lucee Blog
Am I going crazy, or are the Scheduled tasks completely broken on both the latest Lucee 6 release and Lucee 7 RC?
At every server reboot, all or most scheduled tasks randomize their daily start time and end time so that the tasks won't be executed at all, or only for a few min...
Lucee Blog
Am I going crazy, or are the Scheduled tasks completely broken on both the latest Lucee 6 release and Lucee 7 RC?
At every server reboot, all or most scheduled tasks randomize their daily start time and end time so that the tasks won't be executed at all, or only for a few min...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel explores various ways to output nested data from a JOIN-based query object in ColdFusion....
FusionReactor
Introduction – Llama 4 vs Deepseek The open-source AI landscape is evolving rapidly, with new models challenging the status quo almost monthly. Among these, two models have recently captured significant attention from developers, researchers, and businesses alike: Meta’s Llama 4 ̷...
FusionReactor
Introduction The open-source AI landscape is evolving rapidly, with new models challenging the status quo almost monthly. Among these, two models have recently captured significant attention from developers, researchers, and businesses alike: Meta’s Llama 4 and DeepSeek AI. Both represent &...
CF Whisperer
What Are These?
Lucee Blog
Hi, I recently upgraded my server to 6.2.1.122 and some very alarming things started happening.
I am getting constant reports of users being logged in as one user, and then loading the next page of my application as they browse and are suddenly logged in as someone else.
ColdFusion
In this blog, we’ll walk through the process of enabling SSL for ColdFusion WebSocket communication. Whether you’re using a self-signed certificate or a CA-signed certificate, the steps are straightforward. We’ll cover both scenarios If you are using a self-signed certifi...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I have a server running 7 instances of CF (6 sites plus root instance). If I run a NetStat, I generally see about 1800 ports as "ESTABLISHED" (see below for a sample). Why so many ports connected to itself? Ultimately what happens is the server just kind of di...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Using an old server for our internal APP.We also use ColdFusion and O365. O365 will require OAUTH 2.0 as of SeptemeberThe version of CF will not work so I need to update to v18 or v21Support is telling me I can only purchase CF 2025. ...
FusionReactor
Adobe has just dropped ColdFusion 2025 Update 2 (released May 13, 2025), and it's packed with critical security fixes, key feature updates, and several long-requested bug resolutions. Whether you’re running mission-critical applications or just dabbling in CFML, this update is …
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