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ColdFusion
What’s New & What’s Next
CFUNITED 2006
October 28th, 2006
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ColdFusion
Roadmap
Ben Forta
Senior Technical Evangelist
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Building The Future ColdFusion
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ColdFusion MX 7 has been an incredibly successful product:
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Over 30,000 servers shipped.
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Planning for the next major version of ColdFusion began prior to the
Adobe acquisition.
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At CFUNTED 2005 we announced that we were starting work on
“Scorpio”, the next major version of ColdFusion.
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Work on Scorpio continues, but a slight detour was taken to better align
ColdFusion with Flex.
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ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 (Today!)
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Update to ColdFusion MX 7
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Flex 2 integration
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Updated Flash Remoting
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New Flex Data Services adapter
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New Flex Messaging gateway
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Flex Builder 2 ColdFusion extensions
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Updated reporting engine
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Hot-fix and patch rollup
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ColdFusion MX 8 (2007)
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Next major update
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New administrative functionality
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Server monitoring
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Analysis tools
Adobe product integration
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Flex
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LiveCycle
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Breeze
New developer functionality
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ColdFusion + Flex
Ben Forta
Senior Technical Evangelist
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ColdFusion As A Flex 1.x Back-End
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Flex is used to build sophisticated application front-ends that run within
the Flash player.
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Flex is back-end agnostic:
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Flex relies on HTTP, SOAP, and AMF to talk to back-end systems.
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Back-ends can therefore be just about anything, including ColdFusion.
ColdFusion had no specific Flex awareness:
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Support for processing requests received via SOAP or AMF part of core ColdFusion.
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ColdFusion & Flex 2
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ColdFusion and Flex 2 were designed to work with, and compliment,
each other.
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ColdFusion is very Flex aware, and Flex Builder 2 is very ColdFusion
aware.
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Flex 2 Pricing
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Flex Builder 2 costs$499
$699
$59
$899
$999
$79
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Flex 2 SDK is FREE!
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Compiler and framework.
Flex Data Services Express is FREE!
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Single CPU, no clustering.
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Flex 2 Deployment Model
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Flex 2 applications can be deployed in two ways:
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As self-contained compiled SWFs that do not need a server component (although
they will still be able to communicate with back-ends via SOAP and AMF).
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As applications served via Flex Data Services server functionality (providing additional
capabilities and functionality).
Many ColdFusion developers will opt to just use Flex Builder 2.
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Although many will indeed want to leverage Flex Data Services.
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Basic FDS functionality will be made available for FREE!
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Flex 2: ColdFusion Integration
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Updated Flash Remoting.
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A new Flex Data Services adapter.
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All versions of CF.
All versions of CF.
A new messaging gateway.
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CF Enterprise only.
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Flex Builder 2: ColdFusion Awareness
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Automatic conversion between ColdFusion Component and ActionScript
classes.
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Data abstraction wizards.
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RDS integration.
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File system.
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Data sources.
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SQL query builder.
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Service browser.
Full application generation.
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Flex 2 Is Available …
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ColdFusion
“Scorpio”
Jason Delmore
ColdFusion Product Manager
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Introductions
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Who is this Guy? And what is he doing here!
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Spent the last 7+ years building applications in ColdFusion
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Last position was Director of Engineering for Deploy Solutions, a
leading provider of Hiring and Talent Management Software
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A familiar story…
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The company wanted to standardize on Java (JSP and POJO)
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Convinced them that there were other choices… they agreed and started investigating
which way to go
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Unfortunately, the two choices they wanted to investigate were Java and .NET
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Dave Gruber and Tim Buntel helped me argue that ColdFusion was a third possibility
and ultimately they decided on a ColdFusion/Java Hybrid!
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I have been at Adobe for 4 weeks my primary focus has been Scorpio
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My new job is to play with all this really cool stuff before anyone else
even knows about!!!
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ColdFusion MX 8
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Next major update
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New administrative functionality
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Server monitoring
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Analysis tools
Adobe product integration
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Flex
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LiveCycle
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Breeze
New developer functionality
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ColdFusion MX 8
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What else???
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What we’re ready to tell you.
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Okay…It’s
focused
on
innovation!
Well,
Nothing
notmore,
much…
sorry
that
that’s
would
it. spoil the fun
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Over 200 Engineering Weeks of Development Already!
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Several features are ready for Alpha!
Some additional hints at what we are doing
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Support for more platforms!
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Improved development tools for building your applications faster!
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We are Adobe… look for us to leverage other Adobe technologies!
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ColdFusion MX 8 - Demo
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CFPDFForm
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Populate PDF Forms directly from your ColdFusion
application
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Extract data from a PDF Form Document
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Automate and streamline document based processes
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ColdFusion MX 8 - Demo
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CFPresentation
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Build complex Presentations in real-time
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Run reports and save them as a dashboard for viewing
later!
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Create training materials directly from your live
application (no need to go and screen capture every
page ever again!).
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ColdFusion MX 8
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That was just a taste of what’s to come.
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Want to learn more about Scorpio???
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Well, you will just have to wait!
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We are currently planning our next round of customer validation.
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My job, is to be your advocate!
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Please feel free to give me your thoughts and opinions on where
ColdFusion should be heading!
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And did I mention… I get to play with all this cool stuff before anyone
even knows about it!!
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Adobe ColdFusion
?
ColdFusion Product Marketing
Manager
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Tim Buntel
Sr. Product Marketing Manager,
ColdFusion
Adobe Systems, Inc.
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Marketing? Me?
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Really about the business
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Strategy
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Position
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Sell
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Evolve
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Partner
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Prepare, train, evangelize
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And still…
Features!
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Beyond Features
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Innovate
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Part of the EDBU, that’s Enterprise
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Advertising and outreach
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Integrate with other products
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Events…
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MAX 2006
October 23-26
The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas
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More CF coverage than recent years
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120 sessions (80 or so typically), 20 CF
specific!
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Scorpio, Scorpio, Scorpio!
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