User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Installing and Using ColdFusion MX for IBM® WebSphere® Application Server
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Essential Information
- Chapter 2: Installing on WebSphere V5
- Chapter 3: Installing on WebSphere V4
- Chapter 4: Enabling and Using ColdFusion MX Features

4 Contents
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