CFML goes mobile with Blue Dragon Open Source
Wow, I think this post is very good and big news to the CF community. On top of last weeks announcement that the Blue Dragon J2EE Edition will go open source, today Alan Williamson posted that with iJetty together with Google Android would allow to run the Blue Dragon on top of your mobile phone.
According to Alan: “This basically means, that we will be able to produce a version of BlueDragon that will be able to utilise this platform and to cut a long story short, your CFML apps are now mobile!”
I think next to Adobe AIR, this is the next great thing to come.
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“allow to run the Blue Dragon on top of your mobile phone”
Why in the name of all that’s holy would I want to do that ?
Get your imagination going:-) No seriously, there is no way that you are able to run CFML pages on the mobile. This would make it possible.
In the same sense you could ask why Adobe brought AIR. Why would anyone want to run Web apps on the desktop?
It all burns down to usability and the craziness of the little gadgets…
No really. Why would I use such a heavy runtime on a relativly resource poor platform ?
Optimised (Java) or device native (AIR, C++) is going to perfrom much much better.
It runs on top of Google Android. I don’t think that Google will release something that will suck up all energy. But that remains to be seen.
It is just the possibility that matters and for that the Blue Dragon J2EE offering is great and outlook is fantastic.