I’m tired of Blogger crapping out halfway through my update, especially when I make a one character change to my template and it has to upload all 80 of my entries to my server. I’ve now installed WordPress and going to attempt to host and maintain my blog internally. No offense to the ColdFusion blogging packages out there, but Wordpress is a much more mature and extendable platform.

I always hated Blogger’s inconsistencies, and as a control freak, not being in control of my own data bugged me a lot. So far it’s been flawless, the editor is much better than Blogger’s and finally being able to categorize my posts saves me time.

Now that the ColdFusion server runs on top of a Java subsystem, I thought it was time for the Server scope to actually contain information about the Java server as well as the CFML processor. The Enhancer adds a new JVM key to the Server scope and adds more keys to the Server.OS structure.

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New keys:

• server.jvm.memory
• server.jvm.memory.pools
• server.jvm.threads
• server.jvm.arguments
• server.os.CommittedVirtualMemorySize
• server.os.FreePhysicalMemorySize
• server.os.FreeSwapSpaceSize
• server.os.ProcessCpuTime
• server.os.TotalPhysicalMemorySize
• server.os.TotalSwapSpaceSize
• server.os.AvailableProcessors
• server.os.MBeanInfo

Of course, you can remove any information that you don’t want from the code, but even on my wimpy 500MB RAM/1.33 MHz laptop, execution time for the code was max 67ms and averaged about 32ms.

I made two versions of the code. All of the features descibed above are in the JDK 1.5 version. The 1.4 version still adds some memory values and has the Thread query, but the 1.4 JDK just doesn’t have as many features.

Download Server Scope Enhancer JDK 1.5
Download Server Scope Enhancer JDK 1.4