Tonight I upgraded my server from the Railo 3.0 Community version to Railo 3.1. A couple of weeks ago I upgraded all of my development machines and found that it was an amazingly simple process. Tonight's upgrade was flawless, and my sites were down for literally less than 30 seconds. All I had to do was stop my Railo server, make a backup copy of the "lib" directory, copy/paste the Jar files into the original "lib" directory, and restart Railo. (The Jar files can be found here, under "Railo Custom".)

I still can not get over just how easy this process was! Even after doing this upgrade on multiple dev machines, in the back of my mind I was still halfway expecting to run into some problem when I did it in production. I mean, come on...how many times does an upgrade like this go off without any problems when you do it in production, right?

I tip my hat to the staff behind Railo. They are an amazing group of people who have created an equally amazing product.