RTMPT broken in Red5 with java 7.

I have just posted a bug for Red5 Streaming server.

If anyone should happen to google it and find this, I can tell you that streaming audio or video over RTMPT with Red5 1.0 is broken after installing Java 7 on a Windows Server 2003.

From what I can tell this is because of changed behaviour with Java 7 and Tomcat, and I was not able to fix it. I had to revert to Java 6 to make it work.

Please note that streaming over RTMP was not affected.

Red5 should be upgraded with support for both Tomcat 7 and Java 7!

Consuming the Soliditet webservice in Coldfusion 9

I recently ran into problems consuming a webservice which gives company ratings for Swedish companies provided by Soliditet.

I was aware of the limitations of cfinvoke and CreateObject when it comes to certain SOAP-services, so my approach was to build the request manually as xml and use <cfhttp> to post it.

If I searched and got no hits: No problem. I received a perfect xml-doc in return stating "No hits". The same with "Too many hits". But when I got a response which should return between 1 and 50 hits, I got the dreaded:

struct
Charset	[empty string]
ErrorDetail	I/O Exception: Premature EOF encountered
Filecontent	Connection Failure
Header	[empty string]
Mimetype	Unable to determine MIME type of file.
Responseheader	struct [empty]
Statuscode	Connection Failure. Status code unavailable.
Text	YES

After a lot of tweaking I finally tried using <cfx_http5> which has been around for years because of the limitations of <cfhttp>.
Bam. There it was. Problem solved.

For the record: I have consumed many web services and this is the first time I've had to resolve to <cfx_http5>. I have always gotten around the problems using <cfinvoke> or <cfhttp>. I think many web services are unnecessary complex. Especially when it comes to returning simple datasets.

I really don't understand why Adobe can't get cfhttp to work as nicely as cfx_http5 does.

By the way; this was done using CF9 and although Coldfusion 10 is out now, I haven't been able to test if there are improvements in the forementioned tags.

The new format war

Finally the last nail was put in the coffin for HD-DVD. I have backed Blu-Ray since the launch as it never was any doubt which was the better format.

Yesterday Universal was quick to say they will switch to Blu-Ray, and then there's just really Paramount/Dreamworks who need to come forward and say they will start producing movies in BD and I will be a very happy man!

Now we can start focusing on the other format-war! Blu-ray vs DVD! Or SD vs HD as we will probably call it from now on. Standard Definition vs High Definition.

The sales-volume of both players and movies must increase so that the prices go down towards DVD-prices. Therefore you need to go out and buy a Blu-ray-player and a few movies now if you haven't done so already!
Tell your spouse I said it. You have my permission! :)