An Open BlueDragon AMI is available on Amazon which is built on Cent OS and uses Jetty. I haven't tried this yet but wanted to spread the word for those who are using Amazon to run images.

The MXUnit team have posted instructions on how to get OpenBD running on Tomcat and JBoss. Another useful resource. The MXUnit team have committed to having MXUnit running on OpenBD (which means removing some strange ColdFusion-specific Java code).

Per Kleven has posted instructions for setting up a centralized installation where you have a single set of OpenBD files shared across multiple web applications on Tomcat.

CFUNITED just announced two new topics from Adobe ColdFusion team members Chandan Kumar (PDF documents and forms) and Manju Kiran (64-bit ColdFusion). They join Rupesh Kumar, who will be talking about cfthread. It's great to see more of the Bangalore-based ColdFusion team attending conferences! It's good for us to put faces to the ultra-smart guys who build the product we love. It's good for those engineers to meet and talk with the customers who use what they build.

Daemon is considering changing the license for FarCry 5.0 from Common Public License 1.0 (CPL) to a dual licensing model with GPLv3 and commercial options. Jeff Coughlin interviews Geoff Bowers of Daemon about this possible change and what it might mean for FarCry users and developers.

Kay Smoljak is running a series of interviews with framework developers and has a summary article on SitePoint that includes a survey of people's framework usage. It's going to be a great series of articles and makes interesting reading (FarCry and COOP have been covered so far with Fusebox, Mach-II, Transfer and ColdBox coming soon - and Model-Glue and ColdSpring et al to follow). The survey will only be open for a few more days so rush over and make your voice heard!

Neil has an interesting take on Open BlueDragon: he says it makes CFML development easy again and goes on to talk about how the small size of OpenBD and the structure of it allows you to work on packaged applications very, very easily within Eclipse.

Adam Haskell has posted a video showing how to get Open BlueDragon to build / run in Eclipse on Mac OS X. He has also posted a patch file for the cfEngine.java change.

This change is certainly needed in order to deploy and run OpenBD directly on a server via Eclipse. It may be needed to run outside of that environment. Either way, it's a small change. In src/com/naryx/tagfusion/cfm/engine/cfEngine.java, around line 607 at the start of setTempDirectory(), you'll see: tempDirectory = getResolvedFile(systemParameters.getString("server.system.tempdirectory")); This will fail if the server.system.tempdirectory property is not defined.

I'll post more detailed notes shortly but I wanted to quickly get a couple of things out there for folks who are trying this. This post assumes you are carefully following the docs/BuildingDebugging.txt instructions (in the OpenBD source download). First off, Java on Mac OS X does not have a tools.jar file so you can ignore the step in the OpenBD instructions about setting up the JDK_15_TOOLS class path variable (tools.jar is incorporated directly into the base JDK install on a Mac).