Adobe ColdFusion User Group Tour Adam Lehman Product Manager.

Adobe ColdFusion User Group Tour

Adam Lehman

Product Manager

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Agenda

ColdFusion Overview

Centaur

Bolt

Demos

Q & A


STATE OF THE UNION

ColdFusion


ColdFusion 8 – Industry Recognized & Award Winning

Best in Web Development Best Web Services Solution

2008 Top Ranked App Server

2009 Winner Web Development Tool


ColdFusion PopulationGrowth


CENTAUR & BOLTSneak Peek


Centaur & Bolt Overview

RAD Without RulesDevelop and Manage applications faster and easier than ever

Enterprise GlueIntegrate applications with a multitude of technologies and services

Expressive ApplicationsCreate rich interfaces for applications quickly and easily


Server.cfc onServerStart()

Defined via ColdFusion Administrator

Nested CFTRANSACTION

CFFINALLY / finally

CFCONTINUE

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CentaurCFML Enhancements


Pass implicit structures/arrays to tags and functions

Assignment chaininga = b = c

Direct access to elements of returned arraysmyFunction()[x]

Ternary operatorsa = (b < c) ? b : c

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CentaurCFML Enhancements


Full language support for CFSCRIPT Fully define functions and components

JavaDoc style notation for documentation and metadata

10

CentaurCFSCRIPT Enhancements


New Operators

abort ["message"]

exit ["methodName"]

include "template"

param [type] name [=defaultValue]

throw "message“

rethrow

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CentaurCFSCRIPT Enhancements


Explicit local scope for private function variables <cfset LOCAL.myvar = 1 /> in addition to <cfset var myVar = 1 />

Var scope variable anywhere within a function/method

Automatic getters/setters – based on CFPROPERTY

Import & New keyword

CentaurCFC Enhancements


BoltColdFusion IDE


Retrieve and manage email/folder via IMAP Return headers-only for faster download

Download attachments

Manage Folders

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CentaurIMAP


Create PDF Packages

Add/Remove Headers and Footers

Optimize PDF’s Remove Unused Elements

Down–sample images

Extract Text / Images

High Quality Thumbnails

15

CentaurPDF Enhancements


CFSPREADSHEET Create

Read

Merge

Support for Excel 97, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008

Open Office Spreadsheets

16

CentaurSpreadsheet Integration


CFPRESENTATION Generate PPT files from CFML/HTML

content

Convert PPT to HTML or Flash

Support for PowerPoint 97, 2000, 2003, 2007,

2008

Open Office Presentations

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CentaurPowerPoint Integration


Save CFC data to a database without SQL

Build database independent applications

Bi-directional (CFC Database)

Powered by the industry leading Hibernate framework

1818

CentaurDatabase to Code (ORM)


Object Cache Save / Retrieve objects from a built-in cache

Programmatic access to cache metadata / propertiescacheGet()cachePut()cacheGetMetaData()etc.

Template Cache Cache page fragment or entire templates

19

CentaurAdvanced Caching


New Full-Text Search Engine Full CFSEARCH/CFINDEX

functionality

Advanced Replication / Caching

No document limit

Verity is officially deprecated Verity Solr migration tool

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CentaurLucene Solr


Direct access to ColdFusion services General Utilities

Includes file upload support

Charting (CFCHART)

Document Services (CFDOCUMENT)

PDF Utilities (CFPDF)

Image Manipulation (CFIMAGE)

Mail (CFMAIL)

Pop (CFPOP)

Available as SOAP & AMF

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CentaurExposed Service Layer (CFaaS)


AS3 / MXML Libraries for Adobe Flex Consumer CF Services

High-speed Flash Remoting

AS3 Data Persistence Library for Adobe AIR Online / Offline Data Synchronization

CentaurRich Internet Applications


Updated UI Controls ExtJS 3.0+

Powerful new controls Multi-File Upload

Enhanced Data Grid

Progress Indicator

Message Box

Sliders

Accordion Layouts

Much More!

2323

CentaurEnhanced UI Controls


Desktop application for monitoring and managing ColdFusion servers Flex-based AIR application

Run as a background service

Receive system notification & alerts

Manage / Apply settings for multiple servers

Datasources, Mappings, etc.

Apply Hotfixes

More…

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CentaurServer Manager


MORE TO COME…Centaur & Bolt


Public Bugbase and Enhancement Requests

Targeted Release:Centaur / Bolt Public Beta


Open CFML Advisory Board

Working on CFML 2009 Recommendation

All CFML/CFSCRIPT updates for Centaur submitted for consideration

The ColdFusion Community Drives CFML Not Adobe


Free ColdFusion For Education

ColdFusion 8 Enterprise isfree for students and faculty

ColdFusion 8 curriculum isfree for everyone

http://freeriatools.adobe.com


User Group Tour – North America


Join the Social

@ColdFusion

@Adrocknaphobia - Adam

@BenForta

@TPRyan - Terry

Adobe ColdFusion User Group Tour Adam Lehman Product Manager.

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