MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61 - INSTALLING COLDFUSION MX FOR IBM WEBSPHERE APPLICATION... User manual

Installing and Using ColdFusion MX for
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
About Macromedia ColdFusion MX documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Documentation set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Viewing online documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
CHAPTER 1: Essential Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Overview of the J2EE platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Overview of ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server . . . . . . . . 8
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Operating system and Java requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Additional requirements and software support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Directory structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Differences between ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion MX on WebSphere . . . . . . 12
General ColdFusion MX feature differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Differences in directory locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Differences in the ColdFusion MX Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server. . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Considerations for all platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Considerations for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installation procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Creating and migrating applications on ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Learning about ColdFusion MX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Migrating existing ColdFusion applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
CHAPTER 2: Installing on WebSphere V5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing and deploying Macromedia ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing the ColdFusion MX files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Deploying ColdFusion MX on WebSphere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Running the Configuration and Settings Migration Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Enabling and configuring specific ColdFusion MX functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Enabling features with operating system-specific binaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Enabling Access to COM objects (Windows only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Enabling charting and graphing (UNIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Disabling RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Undeploying ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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CHAPTER 3: Installing on WebSphere V4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing and deploying Macromedia ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Installing the ColdFusion MX files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Deploying ColdFusion MX on WebSphere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Running the Configuration and Settings Migration Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Enabling and configuring specific ColdFusion MX functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Enabling features with operating system-specific binaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Enabling sandbox security (AIX) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Enabling access to COM objects (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Enabling charting and graphing (Unix) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Supporting messages from a POP mail server (pre-FixPak 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Disabling RDS after installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Undeploying ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
CHAPTER 4: Enabling and Using ColdFusion MX Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Enabling ColdFusion MX functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Installing Verity Search Packs for ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Enabling CORBA support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Enabling web services access for Flash Remoting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using a third-party JDBC database driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Managing ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Managing the ColdFusion MX application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Managing ColdFusion MX Windows services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Using the / context root. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Accessing the ColdFusion MX Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Migrating a ColdFusion application to IBM WebSphere Application Server . . . . . 49
Using RDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
About RDS configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Configuring RDS for a new ColdFusion MX context root . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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INTRODUCTION
Installing and Using ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server is intended for anyone
who needs to configure and manage their ColdFusion development environment.
About Macromedia ColdFusion MX documentation
The ColdFusion MX documentation is designed to provide support for the complete spectrum of
participants.
Documentation set
The ColdFusion MX documentation set includes the following titles:
Book Description
Installing and Using
ColdFusion MX for IBM
WebSphere
Application Server
Describes system installation and basic configuration for Windows NT,
Windows 2000, AIX, Linux, and Solaris.
Configuring and
Administering
ColdFusion MX
Part I describes how to use the ColdFusion MX Administrator to manage
the ColdFusion environment, including connecting to your data sources and
configuring security for your applications, Part II describes Verity search
tools and utilities that you can use for configuring the Verity K2 Server
search engine, as well as creating, managing, and troubleshooting Verity
collections.
Developing ColdFusion
MX Applications
Describes how to develop your dynamic web applications, including
retrieving and updating your data, using structures, and forms.
Getting Started
Building ColdFusion
MX Applications
Contains an overview of ColdFusion features and application development
procedures. Includes a tutorial that guides you through the process of
developing an example ColdFusion application.
CFML Reference Provides descriptions, syntax, usage, and code examples for all ColdFusion
tags, functions, and variables.
CFML Quick Reference A brief guide that shows the syntax of ColdFusion tags, functions, and
variables.

6 Introduction
Viewing online documentation
All ColdFusion MX documentation is available online in HTML and Adobe Acrobat Portable
Document Format (PDF) files. Go to the documentation home page for ColdFusion MX on the
Macromedia website: www.macromedia.com.

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CHAPTER 1
Essential Information
This chapter describes Macromedia ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server and
provides information that applies to all WebSphere installations.
Contents
About ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Directory structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Differences between ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion MX on WebSphere
Installing ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Creating and migrating applications on ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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About ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server
Macromedia ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server enables you to add
ColdFusion MX capabilities to your Sun Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application
server. It is a J2EE application that installs on top of your existing Java application server and
provides development, deployment, and management services for ColdFusion applications.
Overview of the J2EE platform
The J2EE platform is a set of detailed specifications and runtime services for developing
enterprise applications. A J2EE-compliant application is based on standardized, modular
components. J2EE provides these components with a complete set of services, and automatically
handles many details of the application behavior; for example, providing pluggable and scalable
database connection pooling and transparently managing web session clustering and failover.
J2EE provides a security model to protect your data and JDBC, an application programming
interface (API) to access your data. Also, J2EE is interoperable with other technologies that follow
the same modularized standard; for example, you can use Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), Java
Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), and XML in your applications.
For more information, see http://java.sun.com/j2ee.
Overview of ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server
The ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server runtime environment is a Java
application that takes advantage of the services in the J2EE platform to connect to databases,
manage security, and process application requests. It provides the full scripting environment of
Macromedia ColdFusion MX and lets you develop fully featured Rich Internet Applications
rapidly and efficiently. When ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server is installed
on top of the WebSphere Application Server, it uses that server’s J2EE runtime to compile and
execute ColdFusion applications.
For more information about Macromedia ColdFusion MX, see the ColdFusion MX
documentation.
For information about differences between ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion MX for IBM
WebSphere Application Server on your operating system and application server version, see
“Differences between ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion MX on WebSphere” on page 12.
System requirements
This section lists the system requirements for ColdFusion MX for Windows and UNIX. This
information was up-to-date at the time this document was written. For any updates, see
www.macromedia.com/go/cfmxj2ee-cert.
Note: If you use Macromedia ColdFusion Studio to develop your web applications, note that
ColdFusion MX supports ColdFusion Studio versions 4.5.2 and 5.0 only.

System requirements 9
Operating system and Java requirements
The following table lists the operating systems supported by the ColdFusion MX for IBM
WebSphere Application Server editions. The following considerations also apply:
•The supported Java runtime environment is the default runtime installed with the application
server.
•Additional system update requirements follow the table.
For the most up-to-date list of certified platforms, see the Macromedia support site,
www.macromedia.com/support/coldfusion.
Include the following updates for your operating system:
•To use Microsoft Access or other databases that require an ODBC driver, on Windows NT 4.0
Server or Windows 2000 Server, you must have the following component installed: MDAC
2.5 SP1 (www.microsoft.com/data/download.htm).
•For all UNIX distributions, install the latest production-level patches, including the kernel,
from the supplier’s download sites: for Red Hat, ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub; for SuSE, ftp://
ftp.suse.com/pub; for Solaris, http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-
access; for AIX, http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/support.html.
•To use C++ CFXs with RedHat Linux 8.0, the Linux installation must have a RedHat libc
compatibility library such as the following:
RedHat-8.0 for i386 compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.110.i386.rpm
Users must have 7.3-2.* or later.
Edition Operating systems
IBM WebSphere 4 Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6A
Windows 2000 Server SP3
Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP3
Red Hat Linux 7.2
SuSE Linux 7.2
Solaris 7
Solaris 8
AIX 4.3.3
AIX 5L v5.1
IBM WebSphere 5 Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6A
Windows 2000 Server SP3
Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP3
Red Hat Linux 8.0
RedHat Advanced Server 2.1
SuSE Linux 7.3
Solaris 8
AIX 4.3.3
AIX 5L v 5.1

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Additional requirements and software support
The following table lists the hardware requirements, supported browsers, specific supported
application server editions, and supported databases for the various ColdFusion MX for IBM
WebSphere Application Server editions:
Category J2EE server Requirement
Minimum hardware
requirements
All Processor
Windows and Linux: Pentium
Solaris: SPARC
AIX: POWER/3
Minimum RAM
Developer Edition, Windows: 128 MB
All others: 256 MB
Recommended RAM
Developer Mode, Windows: 256 MB
All others: 512 MB
Free hard disk space
To deploy: 400 MB
To run: 250 MB
CD-ROM drive
Browsers supported for
ColdFusion MX
Administrator
All Internet Explorer 5.x, 6
Netscape 4, 6, 7
Mozilla 1.0
Supported Databases All JDBC drivers are included for the
following databases:
Oracle 8.1.6 - 8.1.7, 9i (R1 - R2)
Sybase 11.5 -11.9, 12, 12.5
DB2 for Windows, UNIX, and Linux v7.1,
v7.2, v8.1
DB2 for OS/390 v6.1, v7
Informix 9.2.x, 9.3.x, and 9.4
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, 2000
MySQL
On Windows, drivers are included for :
Access 97, 98, 2000, 2003
ODBC socket, supports ODBC compliant
databases
Connectivity is provided for all databases
for which JDBC drivers compliant with the
JDBC 3.0 specification are available.