Railo joins JBoss

At Scotch on the Rocks we announced that Railo, starting from version 3.1 will be open source. The professional version will be melted into the community edition and released under the LGPL2 license. It was a very interesting announcement like you can see in the video at the bottom of this page.

 

The following restrictions have to be obeyed:

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Well there are some regarding the licensing model but we will explain the details on our web site soon.First of all here's the official press release from yesterday:

Railo goes Open Source on JBoss.org

Swiss software company Railo announced today plans to release an open source version of the Railo CFML engine hosted at JBoss.org, the website of the leading provider of open source Java middleware. This will provide developers with a top-quality CFML engine available for free under the LGPL license. The open source version of Railo will be launched in late 2008, and will be available for download from the JBoss.org community website.

"JBoss has been a driving force behind the Open Source ecosystem built around the Java platform and in legitimizing Open Source Java middleware in the Enterprise", said Gert Franz, CEO of Railo, "and we believe that having JBoss.org as a community partner will dramatically increase the adoption and use of CFML in the enterprise market".

CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) is a programming language that allows for rapid creation of high performance, scalable web applications. Railo is a CFML engine that converts CFML code into executable Java byte code which can be deployed and run on any standard Java Servlet engine. This provides programmers the productivity gains of CFML development with the performance and scalability of the Java server environment.

As part of the partnership with Railo, the JBoss.org community will be working on several enhancements to provide CFML developers tag-based access to JBoss core functionalities, including JBoss Cache and Messaging.

Sacha Labourey, CTO at JBoss added: "The JBoss.org community has repeatedly proven to be a powerful launch-pad for propelling exciting and innovative technologies into mainstream adoption".

In the following days we will build our websites with all the information about the 3.0 and 3.1 release. In addition our blog will aggregated on www.getrailo.com/blog/.