What's new in Railo 3.1

This page describes what has been introduced in Railo 3.1

The major change in Railo 3.1 is that it has been converted into a JBoss.org project and is now licensed under the LGPL v2 license. If you want to read more about the license agreement, just chek out the LGPL description or an explanation of it.

The following list contains the most important improvements of Railo 3.1 OS:

  • Support for Fusion debug
    With the release of Railo 3.1.1 we finally fully support the step debugger of Intergral named Fusion Debug. More about Fusion Debug.
  • BlazeDS (AMF3) Support
    Flex becomes much more easy with Railo now. Learn more on how to use Flex with Railo. More information will follow.
  • CFC based customtags
    We introduced a new way of writing custom tags by creating them as CFC's. This brings new life to the use of custom tags. There is a tutorial on how to write these CFC based custom tags.
  • Self controlled lib/classes
    You now have the ability to load libraries for local web contexts only or for the global engine. Just place the JAR files into the local WEB-INF/railo/lib folder and they will be loaded locally only.
  • Optional semicolons
    In CFSCRIPT you can omit semi colons now. Then the line break serves as a separator.
  • Extensions
    This is one of the new great features of Railo 3.1.1. Read more in the Railo blog about how to build an extension and what it is all about.
  • sizeOf() - function
    With this function you can finally calculate the size an object in Railo consumes.
  • Timezone defintions
    More about the timezones in the Railo blog.
  • Ternary operator
    More about the ternary operator in the Railo blog.
  • Extenable internal tags and functions
    It has never been easier writing built in CF tags or functions. Just place the corresponding files in a certain directory and you're done.
  • Clustered cache
    The clustered cache is a paid extension but allows you to share cached data amongst servers in a cluster. Read more about it in the Railo blog.

Next to the features above we have added several new functions and functionalities which we will share in our blog over the next couple of weeks. If you want to see new features in Railo 3.2 you can send us your requests on uservoice.