smithproject.org

Hi guys, I read the followings in the about page (http://www.smithproject.org/about.cfm)

With the need to migrate a large ColdFusion® based web application ? with a few hundred thousand lines of code! - to Java. ....

Actually, what do you guys wanted to do? hehe, I just dont understand what do you mean by migrating coldFusion codes to Java. migrating to JSP perhaps?

Thanks, and by the way the downloading process and running the two .bat files are very very quick and yes, I like it already. Thanks for having this software open source

hi there,

sounds to me like this: ColdFusion provides a commercial solution, but the company needed to port their webapp to something *free*, to an environment that could be distributed to customers free of charge, unlike ColdFusion... for example java - but I see it here more in the sense of "java technologies", not just the language itself, including everything that comes with it (jsp's are good, but there are many other good things too - note that you can create a servlet based webapp in java without a single jsp).

i guess, at the end of the day, it appeared to be easier to create a CF engine, and keep the old app, than to rewrite the huge webapp in java from scratch... and hence, the smithproject.org was born.

hi m.obradovic , thanks for the answer, it makes sense.