A Developers Past time

We are using URLAuth within IIS to provide Authorization to our website.  This process uses a VBScript to run some code and return success or failure.  Right now, we implemented a database with a stored procedure to hit some complicated structure of tables to provide Directory/Role/Group/User association.   PSU now provides a great resource with there main LDAP directory, where Offices/Users can create and manage their own Groups.  Therefore, the Admissions office, can have access to the Registrar's groups.  But to make the transition easy, I wrote a page within Coldfusion to grab all the "groups" in our database and go attack the LDAP server.  This provided many LDAP calls within the same page.  The LDAP server had no issue with us hitting it many times within a short period, but Coldfusion started barfing all over the place!! The error we were receiving was unable to create new native thread null .  After a while, I found this blog , about a sim...

I've been in java training for a while now, and within java the best practice is to throw an Exception anytime you want to return a message from one method to the calling method. So for example, a method doValidate would return true/false, but we would actually want the messages of what failed validation if it returned false. Well instead of returning false we would throw an exception. Well in base coldfusion, the only thing we can do is throw one message at a time, so it doesn't make sense to code it that way. Well if you are like me, I really like the throw concept, an it doesn't make sense to add a bunch of code just to return false w/ a structure of the messages!!! <cfthrow errorcode="" message="" detail="" extendedInfo=""> That being said, and since Coldfusion is built on top of java, all you need to do is write a java program that extends RunTimeException. I have done just that were the Java Class has the capab...

I've been in java training now for 6 weeks, and I have been adding "java" code to Coldfusion.  For example, I added a new "Exception" to coldfusion to allow my code to throw an error that has multiple message in that error.  This is great for server side Validation !!!  Where my code checks all the validation rules and adds the errors to the Exception code, and at the end of the method if there is one error, it does a cfthrow with that java Exception object.  More details on java ValidationException here ... But I wanted to test the "thread" safe of this java code within coldFusion, since I am not sure how CF has there Code written.  So to do this, i had a page store the Exception in memory and use it from two pages.  But I wanted the 1st page to start first and end last, and the 2nd page to start last and end first.   HMMM how can i do that.  Well, I added a SLEEP routine to the pages.  Of course, I didn't know how to do this, so I fou...