Andrew's ramblings

ColdFusion RDS could be better implemented.

Tags: Coldfusion

While having a play around with ColdFusion Builder the other day, I was curious how this would work with the RDS feature and what I found surprised me to say the least.

A lot of effort went into sandboxing the server, well almost.

The one thing I thought would have had some major work done to it, would have been the RDS features in ColdFusion. With the advent that the team knew that ColdFusion Builder was in the piper works, I am surprised to find that the best features of RDS are ignored because the user could not be sandboxed correctly.

Why is that important, a lot of the features of ColdFusion Builder rely you being able to setup a remote server to connect to. But you can browse any datasource, you can start and stop the server and many more things from within the IDE.

Would it have not been better for Adobe to say sandbox the user some more, and in shared hosting this is what I would consider extremely important. But for some reason the RDS has never got the sandboxing it deserves.

Like being able to only see the datasources that are assigned to your username in the administrator, being able to only do the things that is allowed by that login. That would have given ColdFusion Builder a better edge in the development life cycle, where I could just use the RDS to view the datasources that I am allowed to.

But alas I find that this area has had no real work in preparation to ColdFusion Builder that makes me wonder what is Adobe actually doing or even thinking. I hope that sometime before the next major release or even the next major release that Adobe really knuckle down and seriously think about how ColdFusion Builder can communicate with the ColdFusion server with total security in mind.

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