Mark Drew (Redux)- cf_etc...

In the first part of this series I looked at creating an extension and an extension provider which suited my needs.

In this post I shall be looking at getting Railo server into your Eclipse project so that you can debug your code. 

So that we can keep it all neat and tidy, I am going to create a project in Eclipse, that will contain the source code for the extension, the extension provider, and Jetty running Railo. 

Why would I put ALL of this in one project you might ask (you might?). I want to be able to debug the server itself, set breakpoints and check variables as I write my code. 

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My role at Railo Technologies has so far been much more of a consultant so far. We consult and develop a number of projects on ACF and Railo and as I am a happy CFML user this has worked out great so far.

One of the things that I wanted to get much more into was the engine itself, and adding features to it. One feature that I am currently working on is creating aCouchDB Cache Extension.

Why CouchDB? Will firstly because it has a really simple API, secondly because you can make it replicate as needed and this makes for a great document based object store.

What I have been doing is:

Building an Extension

Building a development Extension Provider

Automating the updating of the Extension

Running Railo with a Java Debugger

Running tests on the extension

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