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Bundling CF with an application for sale.
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TruthInSatire
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host it on a webserver that has CF and the customer accesses it via WWW. CF does not compile or work without the CF administrator installed.
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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Well this is an internal application. I am writing a management console for a security application.
Bummer, I was hoping CF had something that would sort of work like MS Access in that you can create an executable from a database and allow users to use it without having access installed on their machine. So I would be better off writing this app is something other then CF.
-Al
Bummer, I was hoping CF had something that would sort of work like MS Access in that you can create an executable from a database and allow users to use it without having access installed on their machine. So I would be better off writing this app is something other then CF.
-Al
TruthInSatire
Programmer
uh... CF is for dynamic websites. if you want something to run on a desktop look into something a little more suited for that like VB, C++ or Java. not a web language...
If you want to use this on an Intranet you can do that too but you still have to have one web server running CF.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
If you want to use this on an Intranet you can do that too but you still have to have one web server running CF.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
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No no, I am writing a web based management console. It will sit on a server and communicate with a client application written in VB. It will give administrators a central location to administer the client app. What I want to stay away from is forcing my customers into purchasing my software for $10 a copy and having to spend $999 for CF. Like I said, I would probably be better off using something like PhP since it's free.
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TruthInSatire
Programmer
Oh i see what you mean. Even still yes you have to have one copy of CF on a webserver. No way around that.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
-Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
Hi there! Sorry I didn't your message a bit earlier, but I think the next release of CF will have what you're looking for:
"With ColdFusion MX, you can already deploy ColdFusion as a Java archive (EAR or WAR file) and then manually deploy your application separately on top of ColdFusion. In Blackstone you will now be able to build a single EAR or WAR file that contains both your application and the entire ColdFusion runtime. This makes your ColdFusion application look like any other Java application to your system administrator, thereby streamlining the deployment process."
"With ColdFusion MX, you can already deploy ColdFusion as a Java archive (EAR or WAR file) and then manually deploy your application separately on top of ColdFusion. In Blackstone you will now be able to build a single EAR or WAR file that contains both your application and the entire ColdFusion runtime. This makes your ColdFusion application look like any other Java application to your system administrator, thereby streamlining the deployment process."
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