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This past week, the community recently got a hint of news from Michael Offner-Streit on the mailing list. He mentioned on one of the threads that http://projects.getrailo.org/ will be launching soon. I finally have more information to share about this. Consider this a dumping ground of ideas. One of the issues that recently came up was people wanting to modify / fix tags like cfdump, cfvideoplayer and such. The tags will be posted there so that the community can have easy access to it and further contribute to the development and improvements of the tags. So, if you have a better video player built in flash and you want to share it, it will be posted to http://projects.getrailo.org/. The Projects website is also going to host a copy of Railo Admin and the Railo Admin API as well.

Also, forthcoming is Trac. I was just about to send in another request for a wiki to be opened up when Gert sidetracked me with news and it just so happened that this was one of them. This means that the documentation, installation guide and other relevant information can be finally posted somewhere. You will be able to register / sign up for an account to make modifications and contribute new documentation. Railo Technologies will continue to use the existing documentation codex/wiki scaffolding; Railo Technologies will work on figuring out a way to pull documentation from the new Trac to other locations.

I consider this progress as there is still a noticeable grumbling about lack of documentation and such.

Last, but certainly not least -- Two words: Event Gateways. The development of Event Gateways is a sponsored project. I'm told that within the next month or so, we should be expecting the release of a Railo Event Gateways and more importantly, we will be able to create these event gateways via CFC and/or Java. For example, the directory watcher could be written in entirely CFML if you're not familiar enough with Java -- Currently, majority of the event gateways in other engines are java-based and the CFCs are nothing more than listeners. The Railo team wants to get a discussion going about this idea and get some feedback. If you have any suggestions as to what you'd like to see, now is the time to put your request in or ask questions. Free/Sample Event Gateway code will also be posted to http://projects.getrailo.org/.