Railo: Ашық Көзді CFML Орындалысының Тарихы мен Дамуы

Open source implementation of CFML

Railo Server, commonly referred to as Railo ('/r//aɪ//l//oʊ/ RYloh), is open source software which implements the general purpose CFML server side scripting language, often used to create dynamic websites, web applications and intranet systems. CFML is a dynamic language supporting multiple programming paradigms and runs on the Java virtual machine (JVM). Railo was created by the Swiss company Railo Technologies GmbH, intended as a high performance alternative to Adobe ColdFusion. In 2008, Railo switched to an open source community driven model, and became a JBoss project. The Railo Open Source project is led by Railo Technologies, with development work funded by consulting and support contracts, but anyone may contribute code for consideration.

Railo was named after an alien dog in Star Trek: Enterprise. The dog is actually named Rhylo, but written phonetically in German it is Railo. The project was successful enough that it was decided to continue to develop into a full product. Several alpha and beta releases were made before the official 1.0 release in April 2006. Railo continued to be developed but was relatively unknown to many CFML developers, until June 2008 at the Scotch on the Rocks conference in Edinburgh, when Railo Technologies used the Day 2 keynote to announce a partnership with JBoss and a switch to open source. In May 2012, at the cf. Objective conference, the foundation of "The Railo Company Ltd" was announced, a Private Limited Company, comprising the Swiss company Railo Technologies GmbH in conjunction with five other companies who operated in the CFML industry.

On 29 January 2015, the Lucee project, a fork of the Railo 4.2 codebase, was announced by the original developer of Railo, who stated that he would not be working further on Railo. The other developers have confirmed they will also be focusing solely on Lucee, and although no official statement has been made by The Railo Company the community consensus is that further development on the Railo project is unlikely. On 19 July 2016, The Railo Company was dissolved.

Major version(Codename) Minor version Release date Notes0 Alpha 1 2004 04 10 The first official release of the Railo CFML engine. Alpha 2 2004 05 18 Alpha 3 2004 08 03 Alpha 4 2004 10 21 Beta 1 2005 01 16 The first beta release of Railo. Beta 2 2005 Beta 3 2005 RC1 2005 09 23 The first release candidate of Railo was presented to the German CFUG in Munich. 3.1.1.000 2009 08 11 3.1.2.000 2010 11 263.2
(Greyfriars Bobby) 3.2.1.000 2011 12 24 3.2.2.000 2011 03 18 3.2.3.000 2011 06 10 3.3
(Hachiko) 3.3.1.000 2011 11 03 Added built in support for ORM and many other features. 3.3.4.003 2012 06 25 4.0
(Apollo) 4.0.0.013 2012 07 02 4.0.5.004 2013 07 09 4.1
(Endal) 4.1.2.005 2013 12 11 4.2
(Togo) 4.2.0.009 2014 05 14 4.2.1.000 2014 05 21 4.2.2.0052014 12 18Current stable release of Railo

Railo runs on the JVM as a servlet, and will work with any servlet container (e. g. Apache Tomcat, Eclipse Jetty) or application server (e. g. JBoss AS, GlassFish). It is possible to connect a web server (e. g. Apache, IIS, nginx, Cherokee) in front, using connectors such as mod jk, mod proxy, or equivalent, but this is not required by Railo. Railo has an installer for Linux, macOS, and Windows, which bundles Apache Tomcat. There is also a pre configured Railo Express download using Jetty. From v4.0 onwards, Railo will have a command line version, enabling CFML to be used as a general purpose language, outside of the servlet environment. Railo since v3.1 is licensed as LGPL v2.1, with the source code available on GitHub

A primary aim of Railo was to provide the functionality of ColdFusion using less resources and giving better performance, and the Railo Technologies team continue to "treat slowness as a bug" as a core development philosophy. Many performance tests have shown Railo to perform faster than other CFML engines. In addition to this, Railo attempts to resolve many inconsistencies found in traditional CFML. These are either forced changes in behaviour, or configurable options in the Railo Administrator. The Railo Technologies team have always been open to feedback and active at CFML community events, and are keen to remind people that Railo is a community project. Railo Technologies also creates strong technology partnerships with CFML software companies, including Blue River Interactive Group (developers of Mura CMS), CONTENS Software GmbH (developers of CONTENS CMS), and Intergral GmbH (developers of FusionReactor and FusionDebug), to help ensure their software works well with Railo. In addition, Railo Technologies offer formal "Partner Programs" for Solutions (development), Hosting, and Training.

CFML has built in functionality for preventing code injection, via the cfqueryparam tag, and functions such as HtmlEditFormat, XmlFormat, JsStringFormat. There are also third party CFML implementations of the OWASP Enterprise Security API, and the AntiSamy project. One of the key architecture decisions with Railo was to follow the JEE servlet model, with support for multiple independent web contexts on a single server. This is a key security factor, as it prevents unrelated applications from interfering with each other, as may happen on a shared ColdFusion server (which only has a single web context).

Railo implements the CFML language see the CFML syntax section for examples as well as CFScript.