Not a huge amount to report. This release simply re-orders some of the class loading, so it is child first. This is important in case you load up a newer (or older) version of a library that ColdFusion already has access to, and you want to make sure you get the library you want, not […]
Here is the release of JavaLoader, version 0.5. It pretty much does exactly the same thing that the previous versions did, however, it now works in ColdFusion 8, when the setting 'Disable access to internal ColdFusion Java components' is turned on, as it uses its own JavaProxy CFC, which may often be turned on on […]
First of all, you may be wondering 'what on earth is a JavaProxy?', well, to answer that question, it is the Java class that does all the work behind the scenes in ColdFusion to allow you to be able to write all that Java code in-line in your ColdFusion CFCs and CFM pages by taking […]
Yes, it's true, I've finally succumbed, and put ads on my site, and switched out the wishlist for a PayPal donate button. I have finally turned to the dark side. Do not fear! There are reasons for this! First of all, the Amazon wish list, didn't really work out. I'm sure people thought 'I'll buy […]
One thing that I always gets complaints about with JavaLoader is that you can't delete or rename a .jar file once it is use by ColdFusion, you either have to restart CF, or name the .jar file something funky like 'myOwnJar-10042007.jar', so it has a unique name. Now with this version of JavaLoader, that issue […]
This is a bug in ColdFusion that can cause memory leaks when using a java.net.URLClassLoader to load external jar files. Thus, this can cause memory leaks in JavaLoader, Transfer and any other system that uses this technology. However there is a workaround for the issue. To explain the problem, first we need to look at […]
This is an issue I came across yesterday while doing some work on Transfer that affects JavaLoader , and generally anything that uses an URLClassLoader to load any external class/jar files. The issue lies with catching Java exception with <cfcatch>. The documentation states, that to catch a thrown Java exception you can specify the type […]
Ooops! For those of you who were wondering where the readme.txt had gone to in JavaLoader, I accidentally left it off! I just added it back into the zip file, so if you wanted it, you can re-download it. Sorry about that!
I quietly released version 0.3 of JavaLoader today. I'm not sure if anyone actually noticed. Mind you, I didn't actually tell very many people, so I guess I should proclaim a little. The main purpose of this release is to give greater control over the ClassPath loading behaviour. There are two new optional arguments on […]
I realised something today, I've been telling something about the JavaLoader that isn't true. By default, JavaLoader loads the ColdFusion class path as its parent when loading in custom Java libraries. This means that if JavaLoader can't find a class that you are loading through it via the Jars that you have loaded, it will […]