Our CFColdboxProvider is an implementation specifically written for Adobe ColdFusion 11 and beyond. This provider leverages the EHCache engine within ColdFusion 11 and extends the native ColdFusion capabilities by talking to the EHCache sessions natively via Java. In this manner we are able to do things like:

• Get extended cached object metadata

• Get overall cache statistics

• Talk to terracotta classes

• Do quiet operations on get, clear, and put

• Check if an element is expired

• Do reporting and content reporting

• Much more

Properties

Each CacheBox provider can have its own set of configuration properties it needs for operation. Our CF providers also have some. Please note, all properties other than "cacheName" are passed through to the underlying EHCache implementation in ColdFusion. The default values may differ if you have edited the ehcache.xml file on your server.

Info Please note that you can configure more than 1 CFColdboxProvider cache engine in your applications that can talk to more than one referenced ColdFusion (EHCache) custom cache.

The CacheBox provider is our very own enterprise cache implementation that has been part of the core since its initial baby step versions. Our caching engine has matured over the years and it has been proven effective, fast, scalable and very user friendly. Here are the two implementations for our CacheBox provider:

1. CacheBoxProvider : Our base CacheBox provider caching engine

2. CacheBoxColdBoxProvider : A subclass of CacheBoxProvider that enables caching operations for ColdBox applications

Properties

Eviction Policies

Coldbox ships with the following eviction policies

• LRU (Least Recently Used)

• LFU (Least Frequently Used)

• FIFO (First In First Out)

• LIFO (Last In First Out)

• Custom: You can also build your own and pass the instantiation path in this setting

Object Stores

ColdBox ships with the following object stores:

• ConcurrentStore - Uses concurrent hash maps for increased performance

• ConcurrentSoftReferenceStore - Concurrent hash maps plus java soft references for JVM memory sensitivity

• DiskStore - Uses a physical disk location for caching (Uses java serialization for complex objects)

• JDBCStore - Uses a JDBC datasource for caching (Uses java serialization for complex objects)

• Custom : You can also build your own and pass the instantiation path in this setting

This provider can be used for mocking capabilities in your unit tests or any kind of test you are performing. It keeps a simple localized cache inside of a local structure. It should definitely not used for any type of caching at all.

Properties

• None

Ortus Couchbase Extension

Ortus Solutions, the makers of CacheBox, have created a commercial extension for the open source CFML engines Railo and Lucee to support caching distribution features via Couchbase (https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/couchbase-lucee).

The Ortus Couchbase Extension is a Railo Server Extension that allows your server to natively connect to a Couchbase NoSQL Server cluster and leverage it for built-in caching, session/client storage and distribution, and much more. With our extension you will be able to scale and extend your Railo CFML applications with ease.

The extension will enhance your Lucee server with some of the following capabilities:

• Store session/client variables in a distributed Couchbase cluster

• Get rid of sticky session load balancers, come to the round-robin world!

• Session/client variable persistence even after Railo restarts

• Ability to leverage the RAM resource virtual file system as a cluster-wide file system

• Cache connection capabilities for providing distributed & highly scalable query, object, template, function caching

• Much more

We have shipped CacheBox with several CacheBox providers that you can use in your applications. There are basically two modes of operation for a CacheBox provider and it is all determined by the interface they implement:

1. ICacheProvider : A standalone cache provider

2. IColdboxApplicationCache : A cache provider for usage by the ColdBox Framework

The following are the shipped providers:

Each provider has the shared functionality provided by the ICacheProvider and IColdboxApplicationCache interfaces, so I encourage you to look at the CFC API Docs for an in-depth view of their API. Also, please note that each cache provider implementation has also some extra methods and functionality according to their implementation, so please check out the API docs for each provider.

Our LuceeProvider is an implementation specifically written for Lucee

Properties