Even though it was glossed over during Ben’s presentation at the Nashville CFUG, I was very pleased to see that Adobe will now be supporting JBoss as an application server for ColdFusion.  I spent the last 2.5 years figuring out the best ways to get ColdFusion apps to run on JBoss AS and I’ve found it far more flexible and more easily configurable than running on the native JRun AS - I’m also not an expert on JRun, so I may be a bit biased.

I was also pleased to see that Scorpio will be shipped with the 1.6 JDK as the default.  This means that I can now use all the latest framework and Java libraries (such as JAI, however much of my work with that has been made obsolete by the new CFIMAGE tag) without ColdFusion yelling at me.

I’d love to describe all of my favorite features, but since many of them have been blogged about already…

I hope to get into the Beta problem quickly so that I can get it all running on the latest JBoss AS release and see how well it all performs (a.k.a. beat the crap out of it).