I noticed last week that Adobe has finally announced the end of development for JRun. It was the first major product I worked on, for two years, and it taught me a lot about software development. Ten or so of the core development team for Flex came from JRun (although you'll now see a few of them in other places). The JRunners live on.
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Its a shame (as I replied to other blog posts about this topic as well). I was actually in the process of switching to JRun and was waiting for the new release to come out.
However, as I understand correctly, JRun isn't dead and buried yet. What I understand from Adobe is that JRun will still be powering ColdFusion for the years to come (not that I care). It's just that they have decided not to add 'new' features to the current version on JRun.
Posted by pan69 | August 20, 2007 9:29 PM
Posted on August 20, 2007 21:29
Yeah, JRun is still used in multiple products inside of Adobe, and I'm sure they'll still be updating it for new web servers, etc.
Posted by Brian Deitte | August 20, 2007 9:45 PM
Posted on August 20, 2007 21:45
I worked for Allaire and then Macromedia and was always a bit bemused about why Allaire purchased Live Software and JRun. They were far sighted (the Allaire Brothers) and somehow realized that ColdFusion needed a lift out of the proprietary space it occupied, they were brilliantly correct. So JRun fulfilled a great need at the right time and like ColdFusion was ground-breaking.
Posted by Mike Brunt | August 21, 2007 12:27 AM
Posted on August 21, 2007 00:27