My live blog site runs on ColdFusion (using JRun) with the SES servlet mappings in web.xml. I use the excellent MangoBlog engine for powering my blog. All this means that I have pretty-ish URLs like http://nagpals.com/blog/post.cfm/ftp-in-eclipse-hooray.

Today I wanted to run a copy of my blog on a dev box. But on that dev box, I chose to use JBoss-Tomcat. And the SES servlet mappings that work in ColdFusion on JRun, do NOT work on ColdFusion on Tomcat-JBoss as they are not supported by the servlet engine.

To get around it, I simply used Apache-based rewrites so that the SES urls like http://nagpals.com/blog/post.cfm/ftp-in-eclipse-hooray automatically get mapped to http://nagpals.com/blog/post.cfm?entry=ftp-in-eclipse-hooray.

Here are the rewrites that I put in place to get posts, categories, pages and search to work.

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Today I needed to use JConsole to connect up to a JBoss instance running ColdFusion and Railo. I wanted to see thread usage etc. when starting the application I'm working on.

In the past when I've used JConsole, it used to automatically detect the running JVMs and show them in the startup dialog box. However, today I wasn't seeing the running JVMs.

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In JBoss, if you deploy Railo jars in server/servername/lib folder (basically if you do a global Railo install), then you would have have noticed that JSP pages stop working. It appears that a global install of Railo seems to overwrite the servlet that handles JSP pages. As a result, each time you try and access JSP pages in any other application that is running on the same JBoss instance, you get a message like:

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