ColdFusion - Alternatives to PreCompilation for IPR (Intellectual Property Rights)

Question

Our security policy does not allow us to expose our source code to clients.

Typically, in the ColdFusion world a sourceless distribution is carried out by running the code through cfcompile.sh

Unfortunately, code that is precompiled is in my experience not portable across different Operating Systems. I am now looking into alternatives to obfuscate the actual source code.

Do you see any other option besides the precompilation option in the ColdFusion world?

Answer 1

you might want to check out the cfcompile utility:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=deploying_5.html

two of the features are:

Precompiling ColdFusion pages: Precompile your application's CFM pages into Java class files. At runtime, ColdFusion does not have to compile CFM pages.

Sourceless distribution: Create CFM pages as Java bytecode. You can deploy these CFM pages instead of CFML source code.