Feb 16, 2024
Mike Chytráček talks about “Lucee Migration (8 CFML code moving tips)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast with host Michaela Light.
“...but we had migrated everything over and all new clients went to Lucy all new applications went to Lucy. And within I'd say maybe two years, we had probably 95% of our clients might get it off, some clients still required it”.
Show notes
What is Lucee?
Why did you migrate to Lucee?
- 2018 switch from ACF to Lucee
- Adobe Licensing fishing call and new licensing
model per application with $10ks extra cost.
- “SaaS” due to Mura
- Per core licensing beyond 2.
- Easy trial migration.
- Faster too!
- Worked great with both MS-SQL and MySQL
- 95% clints moved to Lucee
5% don’t understand open source or the support model
Challenges with the migration
- Unsupported tags
- CFfileupload
- CFPDF
- Websockets
- CFspreadsheet
- Arrays and structs passed by reference in Lucee (vs by value)
- Scope overwriting for URL scope
- ORM
- Fixed by removing the ORM and replacing with straight SQL
- How Java classes are handled and created
- OSGI
- EHcache
- Requires setup
- PDFs
- Using wkHTML2PDF and JPG pixel perfect
- Via CFexecute
- Json keys - Linux and Windows - case issue - ACF uppercases the keys, Lucee keps original case
Results of the migration
- CF Admin per site
- Mura and Masa CMS built on Lucee
- Themes and page builder
- Preside CMS
- Ortus Box tools
- Cost
- Esp with more cores
- Cloud easy - no licensing issue
- Faster to “buy” - no wait on licensing portal of ACF
- Runs faster
- Smaller install / load profile
- Support - via Slack or Lucee forums
- Less server issues with Lucee than ACF recently
- Regular (monthly) Lucee point update, easy rollback
Why are you proud to use CF?
WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?
- CF and AI
- CF Camp
CF IDE ideas. AI thoughts.
Mentioned in this episode
- Lucee migration guide
- Calling Java from Lucee
- Masa episode
- Preside CMS episode
- Copilot episode
- Unity pay per download
Bio
Mike Chytráček
Mike first taught himself how to program on the Commodore 64 he received as a Christmas present in 1984. He was soon fascinated by the concept that you could plug your computer into a phone line and have the computer connect to other computers where you could meet new people and share ideas.
It only seemed like a
natural progression when he first discovered the internet in
1994. While simultaneously nurturing an IT career, he learned
how to develop applications for the internet While working for a
Chicago area dealership, he launched one of the first car
dealership websites in the area (for 1998) and the only dealership
that had it's inventory listed and updated daily. In 2000 he
went to work for a small development company, SGSNet, in the
Chicago area where he met future partner, Jeff Meister, and worked
with clients like Ty, Gatorade, Carr Futures and Wilton
Industries. In 2003 that small company was bought by
Whittman-Hart, and by 2005 Mike and Jeff left Whittman-Hart to form
Ignite Solutions and many clients followed them; Wilton Industries,
Quaker/Gatorade, Dehnco to name a few.
Mike
is married with two children and in his spare time enjoys music,
reading and spending as much time fishing the surf in the outer
banks of North Carolina.