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End-of-Life Announcement for J2SE 1.4 Made by Sun Microsystems (ColdFusion MX 7.x, JRun 4)

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced that J2SE Version 1.4 will reach its End of Service Life as of October 30, 2008. Sun announced that J2SE 1.4 was transitioning into an End of Life period (EOL) as of December, 11 2006. With the End-of-Life of J2SE 1.4, Adobe will continue to provide support for configurations requiring this version of the J2SE on a best-effort basis. Adobe w...

Stream images in ColdFusion

You can stream images in Adobe ColdFusion by following the steps below. In your main cfm file, add the following line: Then create a new file named "image.cfm" and put in the following code: Note: You can change the image name and file path on the first line below, or you could also use file="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\image\huge.jpg"...

Error: "Auto-generated keys were not requested, or the SQL was not a simple INSERT statement" (ColdFusion)

When you run a SQL query in Adobe ColdFusion, you may receive this error message: 'Auto-generated keys were not requested, or the SQL was not a simple INSERT statement.' This error may persist even if you have already installed the patch from "Patch Available to Disable Auto-generatedkeys in Datasources (ColdFusion 8.0, 8.0.1)" (TechNote kb403432 ). If you h...

PDFs printed using CFPRINT have a border around them (ColdFusion)

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Fix for Verity installation resulting in the following error when trying to create a collection: Failed to retrieve style path. (-6044)

Errors occur in the Coldfusion installation stating there were problems installing Verity. When you try to reinstall Verity, you see the following error message, "Cannot connect to: localhost:9951." And you see the following error message when you try to create a collection, "An error occurred while creating the collection: com.verity.api.administration.ConfigurationException: Failed to retrieve style path. (-6044)"....

Verity Startup Fails with 'DASDOMParser: Fatal ErrorFile' Error (ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion 8)

The Adobe ColdFusion Search Server service (Verity) may fail to start and may display the following error: DASDOMParser: Fatal ErrorFile: /{path-to-verity-admin-files}/admin{0-9}.xmlLine: nChar: nMessage: (example: The main XML document cannot be empty) Errors occurred during parsing... This error is generated when trying to start Verity from the command line. It may also be found in the {verity-root}/Data/host/log/s...

ColdFusion ODBC services do not start during startup or when trying to manually start the service

Adobe ColdFusion ODBC services will not start during startup or when trying to manually start the service. You may receive the following error when trying to start the service from Windows services: "The Coldfusion 8 ODBC Agent service on the local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they have no work to do, for example, the Performance logs and alert service." This issue may occur for for on...

Predictable Cookie Session ID's Reported by Compliance Tests

If your organizations' Web properties are required by law or by contract to adhere to particular security standards, the person or company doing your compliance testing may report the following problem to you. The CF_ID cookie is insecure because it is sequential in nature, and therefore easily guessed. One of the common standards that might raise this issue is called PCI, but there are also others....

Error when installing ColdFusion to a directory with a space in the path (Windows)

When you install Adobe ColdFusion on Windows to a directory with a space in the path--such as "C:\Program Files"--you may receive an error message when trying to shut down ColdFusion from system services....

ColdFusion Hot Fixes (ColdFusion 8 and later)

What's Covered Introduction ColdFusion 8.0.1 Hot Fixes ColdFusion 8 Hot Fixes Hot Fixes for Versions Prior to ColdFusion 8 Introduction Hot fixes are quick, downloadable code fixes for specific issues. From time to time, Adobe may add additional hot fixes to this page when problematic issue...