[thelist] FW: N-ary beats Allaire to J2EE implementation of Coldfusion

[Seth Bienek]

This is interesting.. Thoughts, comments..?  See below.

Seth

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Seth Bienek
Solutions Development Manager
Stonebridge Technologies, Inc.
972.455.7294 tel
972.404.9754 fax
ICQ #7673959
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Allaire recently announced plans to port its Coldfusion server into a
standard J2EE application that could sit atop any J2EE compliant application
server. It seems that they have been beaten to the punch by Scottish
consultancy firm n-ary, who just announced TagFusion, a J2EE based
application that can render ColdFusion pages.

Press release:
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DUMFRIES, Scotland, Feb 6, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- With the recent merger of
Allaire Corp and Macromedia, Inc., users of Allaire's flagship product
ColdFusion may be slightly unsure of the future of the CFML language.

However, a Java company based in Scotland may have the answer to these
fears.

n-ary (consultancy) Ltd. has developed a 100% pure J2EE application that can
render ColdFusion pages. Initial tests suggest that the software (codenamed
TagFusion) actually runs more efficiently than Allaire's ColdFusion server
itself.

TagFusion supports the majority of the most commonly used CFML tags in
addition to supporting CFML's complete expression language. TagFusion has
been undergoing thorough testing since July 2000 with the UK's largest
shopping portal, ShopSmart.com.

It's not certain yet as to whether TagFusion will become an open-source
project or will be launched as a product to compete directly with
ColdFusion.

For more information and a copy of the white paper, check out
http://www.tagfusion.com

About n-ary

n-ary was the UK's first pure Java company and its CEO, Alan Williamson is
Editor in Chief of Java Developer's Journal. n-ary has been involved with
enterprise Java since the first release of the Servlet API in 1996.