Coldfusion OO programming

Hi
At the moment i have a contact manager application i am
building.
a contact has a title (mr/mrs/miss) and can have multiple
addresses, multiple telephone numbers.
CFC's dont allow me to do multiple inheritance. I can extend
to 1 component then extend to the next one in a kind of "daisy
chain" but this is not ideal, if anything changes in my application
there are a lot of dependencies.
I have been told by Hal Helms to use something called
aggregation but I am finding this concept difficult to grasp.
I believe i am supposed to do something like the following
see attached code:
This seems to work fine, i have a setTitle() method in the
contact.cfc which creates the title object.
The problem is, as soon as i reference the setTitle() method
from within the contact.cfc I can error saying that the return type
is not of type "title"
I think i've either got this completely wrong or i'm missing
something.
Can someone please help?
My e-mail address is
here

You have set the type of your cfargument tag to be title, but
as we can see from your attached code the path for this CFC is
components.contact.title you need to change the type to
that.

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log_level= debug
worker_file= C:\ColdFusion10\config\wsconfig\1\workers.properties
worker_mount_file= C:\ColdFusion10\config\wsconfig\1\uriworkermap.properties
iis_buffer_enable= true
To disable webserver buffer, change the <samp class="codeph">is_buffer_enable</samp> to <samp class="codeph">false</samp> in the <samp class="codeph">cfroot\config\wsconfig\1\isapi_redirect.properties</samp> file. Disable webserver buffer if you want <samp class="codeph">cfflush</samp> to work over an IIS connector. If your application does not use <samp class="codeph">cfflush</samp>, set it to <samp class="codeph">true</samp> for increase in the performance.
This was left on 'true' as shown in the file contents above.
THIS IS THE ERROR NOW OBTAINED at http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm:
Server Error in Application "DEFAULT WEB SITE"
Internet Information Services 7.5
<fieldset><legend>Error Summary</legend>
HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error
The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.
</fieldset>
<fieldset><legend>Detailed Error Information</legend>
Module
IsapiModule
Notification
ExecuteRequestHandler
Handler
cfmHandler
Error Code
0x800700c1
Requested URL
http://127.0.0.1:80/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm
Physical Path
C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\index.cfm
Logon Method
Anonymous
Logon User
Anonymous
Failed Request Tracing Log Directory
C:\inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles
</fieldset>
The supplied path C:\inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles is a nonresponsive link but there are .xml files created in that subdirectory such as C:\inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles\W3SVC1\fr000015.xml which contains this information:
Request Diagnostics for http://127.0.0.1:80/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm
STATUS_CODE 500, 46 ms, GET (2012-8-16, 16:59:5:778)
Request
Summary
Request
Details
Compact
View
Complete
Request Trace
Filter
Notifications
Module
Notifications
Performance
View
Authentication
Authorization
ASP.Net
Page Traces
Custom
Module Traces
FastCGI
Module
<fieldset>
<legend>-Request Summary</legend>
Site
1
Process
8472
Failure Reason
STATUS_CODE
Trigger Status
500
Final Status
500
Time Taken
46 msec
Url
http://127.0.0.1:80/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm
App Pool
DefaultAppPool
Authentication
anonymous
User from token
NT AUTHORITY\IUSR
Activity ID
{00000000-0000-0000-6F00-0080000000FB}
</fieldset>
No.
EventName
Details
Time
1.
i
GENERAL_REQUEST_START
SiteId="1", AppPoolId="DefaultAppPool", ConnId="1610612845", RawConnId="0", RequestURL="http://127.0.0.1:80/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm", RequestVerb="GET"
16:59:05.778
2.
GENERAL_SET_REQUEST_HEADER
HeaderName="AspFilterSessionId", HeaderValue="", Replace="true"
16:59:05.778
3.
i
GENERAL_ENDPOINT_INFORMATION
RemoteAddress="127.0.0.1", RemotePort="50289", LocalAddress="127.0.0.1", LocalPort="80"
16:59:05.778
4.
i
GENERAL_REQUEST_HEADERS
Headers="Cache-Control: max-age=0 Connection: keep-alive Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Host: 127.0.0.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1 DNT: 1 "
16:59:05.778
5.
i
GENERAL_GET_URL_METADATA
PhysicalPath="", AccessPerms="517"
16:59:05.778
6.
i
HANDLER_CHANGED
OldHandlerName="", NewHandlerName="cfmHandler", NewHandlerModules="IsapiModule", NewHandlerScriptProcessor="C:\ColdFusion10\config\wsconfig\1\isapi_redirect.dll", NewHandlerType=""
16:59:05.778
7.
i
USER_SET
AuthType="", UserName="", SupportsIsInRole="true"
16:59:05.778
8.
i
GENERAL_SEND_CUSTOM_ERROR
HttpStatus="500", HttpSubStatus="0", FileNameOrURL="500.htm"
16:59:05.824
9.
i
GENERAL_FLUSH_RESPONSE_START
16:59:05.824
10.
i
GENERAL_RESPONSE_HEADERS
Headers="Cache-Control: private Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET "
16:59:05.824
11.
GENERAL_RESPONSE_ENTITY_BUFFER
Buffer="<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>IIS 7.5 Detailed Error - 500.0 - Internal Server Error</title> <style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body> <div id="header"><h1>Server Error in Application "DEFAULT WEB SITE"</h1></div> <div id="server_version"><p>Internet Information Services 7.5</p></div> <div id="content"> <div class="content-container"> <fieldset><legend>Error Summary</legend> <h2>HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error</h2> <h3>The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.</h3> </fieldset> </div> <div class="content-container"> <fieldset><legend>Detailed Error Information</legend> <div id="details-left"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr class="alt"><th>Module</th><td>IsapiModule</td></tr> <tr><th>Notification</th><td>ExecuteRequestHandler</td></tr> <tr class="alt"><th>Handler</th><td>cfmHandler</td></tr> <tr><th>Error Code</th><td>0x800700c1</td></tr> </table> </div> <div id="details-right"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr class="alt"><th>Requested URL</th><td>http://127.0.0.1:80/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm</td></tr> <tr><th>Physical Path</th><td>C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\index.cfm</td></tr> <tr class="alt"><th>Logon Method</th><td>Anonymous</td></tr> <tr><th>Logon User</th><td>Anonymous</td></tr> <tr class="alt"><th>Failed Request Tracing Log Directory</th><td><a href="file://C:\inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles">C:\inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles</a></td></tr> </table> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </fieldset> </div> <div class="content-container"> <fieldset><legend>Most likely causes:</legend> <ul> %09<li>IIS received the request; however, an internal error occurred during the processing of the request. The root cause of this error depends on which module handles the request and what was happening in the worker process when this error occurred.</li> %09<li>IIS was not able to access the web.config file for the Web site or application. This can occur if the NTFS permissions are set incorrectly.</li> %09<li>IIS was not able to process configuration for the Web site or application.</li> %09<li>The authenticated user does not have permission to use this DLL.</li> %09<li>The request is mapped to a managed handler but the .NET Extensibility Feature is not installed.</li> </ul> </fieldset> </div> <div class="content-container"> <fieldset><legend>Things you can try:</legend> <ul> %09<li>Ensure that the NTFS permissions for the web.config file are correct and allow access to the Web server's machine account.</li> %09<li>Check the event logs to see if any additional information was logged.</li> %09<li>Verify the permissions for the DLL.</li> %09<li>Install the .NET Extensibility feature if the request is mapped to a managed handler.</li> %09<li>Create a tracing rule to track failed requests for this HTTP status code. For more information about creating a tracing rule for failed requests, click <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=66439">here</a>. </li> </ul> </fieldset> </div> <div class="content-container"> <fieldset><legend>Links and More Information</legend> This error means that there was a problem while processing the request. The request was received by the Web server, but during processing a fatal error occurred, causing the 500 error. <p><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=62293&IIS70Error=500,0,0x800700c1,7601">View more information »</a></p> <p>Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles:</p> <ul><li>294807</li></ul> </fieldset> </div> </div> </body> </html> "
16:59:05.824
12.
i
GENERAL_FLUSH_RESPONSE_END
BytesSent="6414", ErrorCode="The operation completed successfully. (0x0)"
16:59:05.824
13.
i
GENERAL_REQUEST_END
BytesSent="6414", BytesReceived="348", HttpStatus="500", HttpSubStatus="0"
16:59:05.824
+Expand All <fieldset> <legend>Errors & Warnings</legend>
</fieldset>
There is nothing under Errors & Warnings. Dead Stop. Nothing Else To Do except Ask For Help. Hoping someone here can provide some guidance.
TIA

Hi
Can you please try setting up full persmission in the security properties for everyone on the wsconfig folder C:\ColdFusion10\config\wsconfig and restart ColdFusion Server.
Swaraj

Coldfusion 10 will not start

I am running CF 10 on Redhat Linux 6 and everything was working fine until recently, but now I cannot get CF to start up. I had created a datasource to connect to a unidata database and it was not working, so I needed a newer version of the database driver. I got the new version of the driver (the 2 files needed for the driver are unijdbc.jar and asjava.zip). I placed the files in the location where I've always placed them while using CF 8:
/opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/wwwroot/WEB-INF/classes/unijdbc.jar,/opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/ww wroot/WEB-INF/classes/asjava.zip,"%CLASSPATH%"
and set the class path in the CF Administrator accordingly, then stopped and started CF, and it came up fine, but the datasource to unidata would not verify (see my other recent forum post) -- in reply to that post, someone had recommended I put the drivers in a different location, so I did that, and set the classpath accordingly:
/opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/runtime/lib/unijdbc.jar,/opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/runtime/lib/as java.zip,"%CLASSPATH%"
then stopped and started CF, and it came up without problem, but datasource still would not connect.
So, I made one more change to the classpath and took the "" off the end so it looks like this:
/opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/runtime/lib/unijdbc.jar,/opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/runtime/lib/as java.zip,%CLASSPATH%
and then instead of doing "service coldfusion_10 stop" and "service coldfusion_10 start" as I had been doing, I decided to try "service coldfusion_10 restart". It said it was stopping CF but then could not start it. I don't have the exact error but it did end with this:
The ColdFusion 10 server instance named cfusion is starting up and will be available shortly.
There has been an error starting ColdFusion 10 server instance named cfusion, please check the logs.
So I thought perhaps the "restart" left a pid or something hanging and it did not completely shut down, so it could not restart, although it would not let me do the stop command either, nor were there any coldfusion processes running on the server. So I decided to reboot the server to see if that would help, it did not -- after the server came back up, I tried starting coldfusion again, and keep getting this error:
[root@ctc3650z selinux]# service coldfusion_10 start
Starting ColdFusion 10 server instance named cfusion ...
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'
sh: /opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/runtime/lib/asjava.zip: cannot execute binary file
sh: line 0: bg: no job control
The ColdFusion 10 server instance named cfusion is starting up and will be available shortly.
There has been an error starting ColdFusion 10 server instance named cfusion, please check the logs.
[root@ctc3650z selinux]#
I cannot get into the coldfusion administrator to change the classpath, but it does not appear to like the asjava.zip file, which it had no problem wtih before (is same file). I do not understand this error:
sh: /opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/runtime/lib/asjava.zip: cannot execute binary file
Also it says "please check the logs" ... I have looked at all the logs under /opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/logs and nothing in them references this error.
Here is the entry in the /opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/bin/nohup.out:
Usage: java [-options] class [args...]
           (to execute a class)
   or java [-options] -jar jarfile [args...]
           (to execute a jar file)
where options include:
    -d32          use a 32-bit data model if available
    -d64          use a 64-bit data model if available
    -server       to select the "server" VM
                  The default VM is server.
    -cp <class search path of directories and zip/jar files>
    -classpath <class search path of directories and zip/jar files>
                  A : separated list of directories, JAR archives,
                  and ZIP archives to search for class files.
    -D<name>=<value>
                  set a system property
    -verbose[:class|gc|jni]
                  enable verbose output
    -version      print product version and exit
    -version:<value>
                  require the specified version to run
    -showversion print product version and continue
    -jre-restrict-search | -jre-no-restrict-search
                  include/exclude user private JREs in the version search
    -? -help      print this help message
    -X            print help on non-standard options
    -ea[:<packagename>...|:<classname>]
    -enableassertions[:<packagename>...|:<classname>]
                  enable assertions
    -da[:<packagename>...|:<classname>]
    -disableassertions[:<packagename>...|:<classname>]
                  disable assertions
    -esa | -enablesystemassertions
                  enable system assertions
    -dsa | -disablesystemassertions
                  disable system assertions
    -agentlib:<libname>[=<options>]
                  load native agent library <libname>, e.g. -agentlib:hprof
                    see also, -agentlib:jdwp=help and -agentlib:hprof=help
    -agentpath:<pathname>[=<options>]
                  load native agent library by full pathname
    -javaagent:<jarpath>[=<options>]
                  load Java programming language agent, see java.lang.instrument
    -splash:<imagepath>
                  show splash screen with specified image
[root@ctc3650z logs]#
Can anyone help? Thank you very much, and sorry so wordy...
Julie

I fixed it myself!! I could not get back into the CF Admin to undo the syntax change on the classpath on the Java/JVM page, since CF was down, so I dug around on the server and found this file: /opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/bin/jvm.config which is the contents of that screen. I edited it with vi and undid the syntax change I did, then I was able to start up coldfusion. Still can't get my unidata datasource to connect, but that's another issue...

Wierd ColdFusion erro : Error occurred while processing request.

Hi there ,
I am a graduate student and new to ColdFusion.I started working on this already developed project by someone couple of years ago , and the client wants some changes to be done.so i went ahead and did some small modifications to the appearance of the form(insertdata.cfm page) like adding some more options to a drop down menu , changing the label names and so on and am very sure this changes would not have effected the application in any way.And the place where the message says the error can be , i didnt even touch that part.Now after 4 days i start getting this weird error saying " Error Occurred While Processing Request
The system has attempted to use an undefined value, which usually indicates a programming error, either in your code or some system code.
Null Pointers are another name for undefined values."
And this happens randomly not everytime i access the website or different webpages.Here are the errors.
The error occurred in /export/web/virtual/web3_unt_edu/cps/webaccess/sites/Amarillo/index.cfm: line 8
5 :   SELECT UserName,Password FROM user_data WHERE UserName=
6 :   <cfqueryparam value="#FORM.UserName#" maxlength="8">
7 :     AND Password=
8 :   <cfqueryparam value="#FORM.Password#" maxlength="8">
9 :   </cfquery>
10 :   <cfif MM_rsUser.RecordCount NEQ 0>
I tried adding " cfsqltype="cf_sql_clob" " in cfqueryparam also on my friends advice , but it doesnt work out.
2nd ERROR
The error occurred in /export/web/virtual/web3_unt_edu/cps/webaccess/sites/Amarillo/InsertData.cfm: line 13
11 :   <cflocation url="#MM_failureURL#" addtoken="no">
12 : </cfif>
13 : <cfquery name="rsDay" datasource="cps">
14 : SELECT days FROM days
15 : </cfquery>
3rd ERROR
The error occurred in /export/web/virtual/web3_unt_edu/cps/webaccess/sites/Amarillo/InsertData.cfm: line 27
25 : ORDER BY ethnicity ASC
26 : </cfquery>
27 : <cfquery name="rsHospitals" datasource="cps_amarillo">
28 : SELECT *
29 : FROM hospitals
Can anyone help me with this. I have to get the modifications done in 2 weeks.
Thank you
Craj

Hi Mak
         I can get the stack trace for now , but here is my complete code , may be this ll give u complete idea .........
The index page where i am getting the first error
<cfif IsDefined("FORM.UserName")>
<cfset MM_redirectLoginSuccess="menu.cfm">
<cfset MM_redirectLoginFailed="../../fail.htm">
<cfquery name="MM_rsUser" datasource="cps_amarillo">
    SELECT UserName,Password FROM user_data WHERE UserName=
<cfqueryparam value="#FORM.UserName#" maxlength="8">
    AND Password=
<cfqueryparam value="#FORM.Password#" maxlength="8">
</cfquery>
<cfif MM_rsUser.RecordCount NEQ 0>
    <cftry>
      <cflock scope="Session" timeout="30" type="Exclusive">
        <cfset Session.MM_Username=FORM.UserName>
        <cfset Session.MM_UserAuthorization="">
      </cflock>
      <cfif IsDefined("URL.accessdenied") AND true>
        <cfset MM_redirectLoginSuccess=URL.accessdenied>
      </cfif>
      <cflocation url="#MM_redirectLoginSuccess#" addtoken="no">
      <cfcatch type="Lock">
        
      </cfcatch>
    </cftry>
</cfif>
<cflocation url="#MM_redirectLoginFailed#" addtoken="no">
<cfelse>
<cfset MM_LoginAction=CGI.SCRIPT_NAME>
<cfif CGI.QUERY_STRING NEQ "">
    <cfset MM_LoginAction=MM_LoginAction & "?" & XMLFormat(CGI.QUERY_STRING)>
</cfif>
</cfif>
<cfinclude template="../../../Connections/cps_amarillo.cfm">
<cfif IsDefined("FORM." & "UserName")>
<cfscript>
    MM_valUsername=Evaluate("FORM." & "UserName");
    MM_fldUserAuthorization="";
    MM_redirectLoginSuccess="menu.cfm";
    MM_redirectLoginFailed="../../fail.htm";
    MM_dataSource=MM_cps_amarillo_DSN;
    MM_queryFieldList = "UserName,Password";
    if (MM_fldUserAuthorization IS NOT "") MM_queryFieldList=MM_queryFieldList & "," & MM_fldUserAuthorization;
</cfscript>
<cfquery datasource=#MM_dataSource# name="MM_rsUser" username=#MM_cps_amarillo_USERNAME# password=#MM_cps_amarillo_PASSWORD#>
SELECT #MM_queryFieldList# FROM user_data WHERE UserName='#Replace(MM_valUsername,"\'","
","ALL")#' AND Password='#FORM.Password#'
</cfquery>
<cfif MM_rsUser.RecordCount GREATER THAN 0>
    <cfscript>
      // username and password match - this is a valid user
      Session.MM_Username = MM_valUsername;
      if (MM_fldUserAuthorization IS NOT "") {
        Session.MM_UserAuthorization = MM_rsUser[MM_fldUserAuthorization][1];
      } else {
        Session.MM_UserAuthorization = "";
      if (IsDefined("accessdenied") AND true) {
        MM_redirectLoginSuccess = Evaluate("accessdenied");
    </cfscript>
    <cflocation url="#MM_redirectLoginSuccess#" addtoken="no">
</cfif>
<cflocation url="#MM_redirectLoginFailed#" addtoken="no">
<cfelse>
<cfscript>
    MM_LoginAction = CGI.SCRIPT_NAME;
    if (CGI.QUERY_STRING NEQ "") MM_LoginAction = MM_LoginAction & "?" & CGI.QUERY_STRING;
</cfscript>
</cfif>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Amarillo Login Screen</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<script type="text/JavaScript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="Layer2" style="position:absolute; left:26px; top:112px; width:683px; height:56px; z-index:2">
<div align="right"><font size="+6"><strong><font color="#999999" size="5" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Seniors
    / Volunteers for Childhood Immunization<br />
    </font></strong></font><font color="#999999" size="5"><strong><font size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Web
    Access Database</font></strong></font></div>
</div>
<div id="instructions" style="position:absolute; left:160px; top:182px; width:259px; height:30px; z-index:3"><font color="#999999" size="5"><strong><font size="4" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Please
enter your user name and password...</font></strong></font></div>
<div id="LayerLogin" style="position:absolute; left:427px; top:182px; width:310px; height:94px; z-index:4">
<form ACTION="<cfoutput>#MM_loginAction#</cfoutput>" name="form1" id="form1" method="POST">
    <p><img src="../../../images/image14.gif" alt="" name="UserNameImg" width="150" height="21" border="0" id="UserNameImg" />
      <input name="UserName" type="text" id="UserName" size="15" maxlength="15" />
      <br />
      <img src="../../../images/image15.gif" alt="" name="PasswordImg" width="150" height="21" border="0" id="PasswordImg" />
      <input name="Password" type="password" id="Password" size="17" maxlength="15" />
    </p>
    <p align="right">
      <input name="Submit" type="submit" id="Submit" onclick="MM_validateForm('UserName','','R','Password','','R');return document.MM_returnValue" value="Log In!" />
    </p>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I checked it again and again , but the code seems to work well on a local host ..... but not whn i upload it to server. Please let me know where i am goin wrong.
Thank you

Coldfusion 64 bit windows installer stops working after recent microsoft update

Coldfusion 64 bit windows installation stops working after recent microsoft updates and how I worked around it.
My question is at the end.
Trying to deploy coldfusion 9 enterprise 64 bit trial version onto a Windows 2003 64 bit datacenter OS with all OS updates from MS (as of 4-7-2011).
Steps taken (remember, this is all 64 bit):
1. Installed the base OS which was slipstreamed with SP2.
2. Checked w/ microsoft and installed 63 OS updates.
3. Launch the CF9 trial exe.
4. As soon as the first screen finishes (the one that looks like it is extracting files) then the second screen pops up (the one that simply says CF Adobe Coldfusion 9) and the progress bar quickly moves 95% to the right and the install application quits. No error, no nothing. No log file either.
5. After a moment of incredulous silence (and retrying/rebooting, etc), I started to google it. I found nothing. However, I did find a post (thanks dspent!) that was helpful in that it told how he was able to get at a log file of sorts, by pre-extracting the coldfusion_9_WWE_win64.exe file and launching the adobe_cf.exe by hand. (Dspent's install snafu was different than mine, but his post was very valuable and got me started in the right direction.)
6. Got a copy of rarunzipper and extracted the coldfusion_9_WWE_win64.exe file.
7. From the windows directory created by step 6, I launched adobe_cf.exe.
8. Same thing (the install application quits. No error, no nothing. No log file either.).
9. I examine the hs_err_pidxxxx.log file (where the xxxx is a number).
10. I see inside that file an ominous message: "A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime" then "Problematic frame ntdll.dll" and then "The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code".
11. OK, so now I am thinking ntdll.dll !! Native code !! It is like Java is telling me that for some reason it can't dance with the OS.
12. On a hunch, I decided to test a CF install again on a server with just the base install of W3K3 64 SP2 (ie: skipping step 2 above this time).
13. Bingo! That install works.
14. Therefore, one of the 63 patches I had downloaded from MS had triggered a problem with the CF installer.
15. Back on the first server (the one with the MS security patches installed and the one that CF won't install on). In the CF file adobe_cf.lax (one of the files extracted in step 6) there is a line that mentions where the install gets it's java. Find that file, and check java version installer is using. It is using 1.6.0_14-b08.
16. Off to the Java website, and there is a newer version of java (1.6.0_24-b07). Downloaded and installed it.
17. Modify a line in adobe_cf.lax :
   before
     lax.nl.current.vm=resource\\jre\\bin\\java.exe
   after
     lax.nl.current.vm=C:\\program files\\java\\jre6\\bin\\java.exe
(that assumes that you let step 16 install to the default location)
Save the file.
18. Run the install ... ** IT WORKS ** !
Obviously, the built in java provided with the CF installer is no longer compatible with some change introduced by some recent MS update on the W2K3 64b SP2 platform.
And now the interesting part. Although I forced the installer to used the new java, it did not incorporate it into the cf build (ie: in jvm.config, you still see c:/coldfusion9/runtime/jre AND the version of java.exe that is in that directory is the original version, not the newer version I forced the installer to use).
On the surface, CF seems to run OK, but I have not done any application testing yet.
And finally my
** QUESTION **
Would it be appropriate to simply point the java.home var to the new java directory? I see that the directory structures and files are not exactly the same (close though) so I certainly don't want to break things by doing this, but instinct tells me that if the installer broke using the older version, then something else is gonna break down the road if I don't use the new version. On the other hand, the differences in the directories and files is enough that it makes me very nervous, with my limitied java skill set, to make this decision.
Thanks in advance!!
Byron

Hi Byron,
Wow great post no doubt much of the information will be useful for those on Win03 SP2 +. Have to say not come across similar problem on Win08 r2 SP1 +.
So to your question. Adobe security bulletin (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/894/cpsid_89440.html) recommends running CF8 and CF9 with JVM 1.6.0_24. The bulletin does not say how to do that. I take you installed JDK and not just JRE 1.6.0_24? Post install of JDK follow these steps:
Stop CF - SERVICES.msc stop "ColdFusion 9 Application Server".
Take a copy of CF\runtime\bin\jvm.config - so you got a backup.
Edit CF\runtime\bin\jvm.config find line "java.home=" and comment it out eg:
#java.home=C:/ColdFusion9/runtime/jre
Add new line like so and save jvm.config:
java.home=C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_24/jre
Note there the slashes and the location of the JRE (runtime) - you need to point to the one in JDK because the other JRE in C:\Program Files\Java\jre6 will be missing a DLL.
Start CF via SERVICES.msc.
HTH, Carl.

Windows Authentication on a Coldfusion Application

Hi community!
I am working on a coldfusion application and I had a meeting
today to show my client my progress. The IT director asked if they
could use Windows Authentication in the new program because the
doctors and therapists forget everything. My answer was kind of
defensive but they asked me to figure that out.
I have no idea as where to start! Can somebody put some light
in my head?
Any thoughts? Any ideas? Any resources?
I work full time in a software development company, this
project is part of the jobs I do on the side so I can afford gas!
he,he In my primary job we have never created a coldfusion app that
works like that. So that's why I am confused.
Thanks fellows!

I use integrated Windows Authntication on my intranet. There
is a checkbox for it under IIS.
This allows the uername to be visible to CF using the
#cgi.auth_user# variable.
As for security, I maintain a data table with each username
and appropriate permissions. In my application, I merely confirm
that the currently logged in user is authorized for given areas of
my site.
Works great. The only real caveat is that some places might
aruge that you are not verifying that the person behind the
keyboard is really the person currently logged into that particular
machine on the network. My defense is that this scenario is the
responsibility of the currently logged in user, rather than the web
developer. Your environment may dictate more stringent criteria or
verification.
BTW: My implementation has passed muster with our security
audits in the medical field for the last eight or nine
years.

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