Using CF9's ORM Features Under Tomcat

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:10:00 -0400

I've set up my local development environment to run my CFML engines under Tomcat. Thanks to Matt Woodward for his thorough blog post and to both Matt and Jamie Krug for some additional help it wasn't too onerous a setup. This allows me to easily run multiple CFML engines (e.g., CF8, CF9, Railo and OpenBD) simultaneously. I just ran into a problem trying to use ColdFusion 9's ORM features under this setup, and that's what the remainder of this post is about.

When trying to test some of CF9's ORM features I ran into a strange problem. Whenever I called a function that interacted with Hibernate I would just get a blank screen returned to me. No ColdFusion error message, no output, just a blank screen. This was a bit difficult to debug, but when I checked ColdFusion's application.log I saw an error message. It said: javax/transaction/Synchronization The specific sequence of files included or processed is: /Applications/tomcat/webapps/cfusion9/index.cfm, line: 10

Thanks to an email from Dave Shuck to a forum, I saw that someone else was experiencing a similar problem. It had to do with a some JEE functionality that is missing from Tomcat. Thanks to some additional information from Elliott Sprehn and Rupesh Kumar I was able to locate and install the jar file required, after which everything worked.

Here are some step-by-step instructions on how to fix this issue: [More]

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Using CF9's ORM Features Under Tomcat