Top 10 CArehart.org blog posts of 2018
These all-new ones will focus on Troubleshooting with FusionReactor and are geared toward helping folks new to FR--or perhaps experienced but a bit bemused by its many features--to better understand how to use it to troubleshoot problems in your app server (CF, Lucee, or any Java server).
The parts in the new series (with links here to register directly to attend) will be:
As in recent years, this event (presented by Adobe in conjunction with Carahsoft) presents something of a "best of" from talks given at the CF Summit in Vegas this past October. April's a great time to visit DC (where I was born and raised, and lived my first 40 years).
And I'll be offering my Hidden Gems in CF2018 talk I have there (and at CFCamp also in Nov), with some improvements since then of course.
See you there, I hope!
Bottom line: these limitations DO apply to ANY PRODUCTION use, not just "commercial" use, definitely regarding Java 11, and seemingly clearly regarding Java 8.
For more clarification, read on.
After April 30, 2019, Adobe will no longer provide any updates for CF11, so there will be no security patches or hot fixes for CF 11 after that. Of course, updates for CF2016 will indeed continue into Feb 2021, while CF2018 updates will continue into July 2023. And we could expect CF2020 (when it comes) to by supported into 2025.
How do I know this? Where does Adobe say it? And can one buy support (yes) to "buy extra time to get such CF11 updates beyond April" (no)? And what about CF11 support for Java 11? Finally, could you use help in moving off CF11 to CF 2016 or 2018? For more on each of these, read on.
But here's some good news: Amazon has recently released a new free JVM (java virtual machine) implementation based on the OpenJDK specification, called Corretto. In this post, I want to share some news about it. (Off the bat, let me tell my friends on any Linux flavor other than Amazon Linux 2, this is not yet available to you. For now it is only available for Amazon Linux 2 as well as Windows, MacOS, and as a docker image. Other Linux flavors are due in Q1 2019.)
For much more, read on.
For more, including why this may have significant impact on your use of Java-based applications, as well as alternatives that may exist for you going forward, read on.
certutil -hashfile [path\]filename MD5
The tool is built into Windows 7 and above, and Server 2008 and above (at least). Tools like it are included in other OS's, but I'm sharing the above for Windows users.
Regardless of what OS you use, for more on why knowing the checksum can be useful (and why comparing file sizes instead may not be enough), and especially with regard to some interesting info about installers for CF2016 and CF11, do read on.
In this post, I want to encourage you to update as well as show you how to do it (and a mistake you could make that would leave you NOT completely updated because you missed a step.)