Connecting Coldfusion 9 to SQL server 2008 Express

I had a bit of a problem when connecting my local instance of Coldfusion to my local copy of SQL server 2008 express.  I had the information correctly in CF admin, however I did not prep my sql server for incoming requests. I had to go to the SQL configuration manager and set the following;

Installing ColdFusion under Tomcat in Ubuntu

ColdFusion doesn't seem to run straight off the bat when installed under Tomcat in Ubuntu. Rather, what I had to end up doing was change the webapps.policy file to give permisions for the application. Essentialy to add this one line of code;

permission java.security.AllPermission;