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ColdFusion MX on Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the and-now-the-fellowship-is-complete dept.

kylner writes "This seemed to be one of the lesser-covered news items at Macworld, but it seems that Macromedia has decided to release its JRun 4 J2EE Server for Mac OSX. What's siginificant about this release? Well, they simultaneously released Macromedia ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers to go with it! It may not be a stand-alone edition of ColdFusion MX, but this is still a dream item for any ColdFusion developer with a Mac at home. It took me about 30 minutes to install on my iBook 600 (I messed up a few times since it requires a little terminal work) but once I got it up and running it just worked. All I've had time to do so far is create a variable and output 'Hello World', but so far so good."

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  1. With Tomcat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are you using it with Tomcat or JRun?

    I've been using CF on OS X for a while now, thanks to the oreillynet.com guide to installing it. Runs great!

    However, it would be nice to use Tomcat since I could change the port to 80 instead of having port 8080 cluttering up my development URLs.

    For those thinking about installing, here are the instructions:
    http://www.macromedia.com/support/c oldfusion/j2ee/ cfmx-mac-onjrunandtomcat.html

  2. Yes! and no more ugly 8080! Re:With Tomcat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    As part of the ongoing comments on oreillynet's story on installing ColdFusion for Mac OS X, the author of the series indicates that it works well with Tomcat and that the port 8080 goes away. Link to the original installation guide is on the comment page below. Author Disck Applebaum also hints that his forthcoming Part 4 will take into account the new announcements.

    http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/13 02 2