Matt Woodward put together a screencast that shows you how to build a OpenBD WAR file from the source code of the OpenBD project. Currently this is for MacOS X, but he will try to release one for Windows and Ubuntu as well.
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OpenBD integrates Amazon SimpleDB with cfquery
We have been talking about bringing some new features to the table for OpenBD. Let us start with one that we were very eager to bring to the CFML community:
Amazon SimpleDB Integration right within the famous <cfquery> tag!
Getting access to this functionality is now very easy with OpenBD. We’ve added Simple DB functionality to our official Plugin that is available for use. This lets you build INSERT / DELETE / SELECT statements for accessing data sitting inside of Amazon SimpleDB.
The benefit of using CFQUERY for your Amazon SimpleDB API is that it literally saves you money. For each request you make of Amazon SimpleDB, it costs money. But by utilizing the inbuilt query caching of CFQUERY you don’t need to query Amazon half as much as you would normally would.
Head over to the official OpenBD Blog to read up more and see some code examples.
Best of all, you don’t have to wait for a release, it is available now and for you to use!
At the end we all want the same for the CFML community
Right, there has been some talks about the CFML advisory board and why no one of the OpenBD Steering Committee has been asked to join and contribute.
Over at Sean Corfield’s blog we have started to debate on that and now Ben Forta (Mr. Coldfusion himself) took the time and energy to write a rather lengthy post about this issue. As I have already stated in the comments I thank Ben for this step and I think it is a good move of Ben.
You do need to read the comments to see what is going on with OpenBD.
The OpenBD project is reaching out
Undoubtedly, some people think of OpenBD still as a New Atlanta project. The Open BD Steering Committee has refuted this many times and also has posted a open letter to the community stating this fact.
Still some people during the first day at CFUnited could not hold back and said publicely that the intention of the OpenBD project is not good for the CFML community at large. I don’t know why this is being said and how it came about, since the interest of the Steering Committee is to bring a open source CFML engine to the table.
In any case, the lead of the OpenBD project has been taken by Alan Williamson. He is the core developer of OpenBD and has licensed his work to New Atlanta which in turn made Blue Dragon out of it. Alan Williamson has no other bounds with New Atlanta nor does the OpenBD Steering Committee.
Even thought that this is publicly known, Alan Williamson just posted the following personal letter to the CFML Community. If you really want to know how he stands, I suggest that you read the letter now.
Judge for yourself, and don’t believe the hype.
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