Adobe ColdFusion warming to 64-bit Operating Systems
Adobe Systems plans to update its ColdFusion 8 technology within the next month with additional 64-bit platform support before launching a full-scale upgrade codenamed “Centaur” in 2009. ColdFusion is a server platform for deploying Web applications based on Java. Applications are deployed as Java files. CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) tags are turned into Java byte code.
With a free update due this quarter known as “Gemini,” Adobe extends 64-bit support to Windows Server 2008, Mac OS X Leopard, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Suse Linux 10. This improves application performance, given the ability to address larger amounts of memory in 64-bit systems. ColdFusion applications currently will run on those platforms only in 32-bit mode. “With the ‘updater,’ your code will run as is, but it will be a native 64-bit application now,” Forta said. ColdFusion 8 already supported the 64-bit Solaris OS platform.
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