AUG Belgium - Introduction to ColdFusion 9

Adobe User Group Tour 2009

An introduction to ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder

About me

1973

1991Physics Studies

1998

Web development

1999

2005

2009

2007

WHAT’S COLDFUSION?

ColdFusion

ColdFusion Population Growth

2004 2005 2006 2007 20080

100000

200000

300000

400000

500000

600000

700000

800000

900000

1000000

ColdFusion 8 Awards

ColdFusionMedia Coverage

Best in Web Development

Best Web Services solution

Best in Web Development

Industry analysts are starting to “get it” Recommending ColdFusion for new projects Encourage ColdFusion expansion in existing organizations

"...ColdFusion can provide unique value that is not fully addressed by any competing alternative technology. Most notably, ColdFusion is unmatched by any competitor for ease of use and technical capabilities. When we combine this with cross-platform deployment, and significant integration into both Java and .NET, ColdFusion stands out as a compelling solution for many IT challenges."

So…What is ColdFusion?

Web Scripting language(CFML + CFScript)

Enterprise Services JEE application server

CF is productivity layer that adds value through a set of tags, functions and services that run on top of JEE

« Flex is to ActionScript as CFML is to Java »Peter Elst (Scotch On The Road 2009)

…OR…

®

Copyright 2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved.

WHAT WE KNOW

Centaur & Bolt

®


CentaurThemes

Integration

PDF Enhancements Office Files

Productivity

CF Builder ORM Server Manager

Richness

Flash Builder 4 Integration

Exposed Service Layer

AIR Online Offline

®


RICHNESS

®


Direct access to ColdFusion services Query Service

Mail

Document Services

Imaging

Charting/Graphs

Exchange

More…

Available as SOAP & AMF

16

CentaurExposed Service Layer

®


AS3 / MXML Libraries for Adobe Flex Consumer CF Services

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

CentaurRich Internet Applications

®


Powerful new controls Video / Audio Player

Multi-File Upload

Enhanced Data Grid

Accordion Navigation

Progress Indicator

Confirm & Alert

Buttons / Sliders

Google Maps

Themes - Easy to skin and style Multiple designs included

1818

CentaurEnhanced UI Controls

®


DEMOSRICHNESS

®


INTEGRATION

®


Add/Remove Headers and Footers

Optimize PDF’s

Remove Unused Elements

Extract Content

Text

Images

21

CentaurPDF Enhancements

®


Create, Read & Update Excel Spreadsheets

Dynamically generate PowerPoint Presentations

Create Flash Presentations fromPowerPoint

2222

CentaurOffice Interoperability

®


Easily build ColdFusion powered content for industry leading portal servers

Built-in support for portlet standards JSR-168 & JSR-268

Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP)

WebSphere

Sharepoint webparts

CentaurPortal Integration

®


Enhanced search support Classic Search: Autonomy Verity K2

Enhanced Search: Apache Lucene / Solr

Open source and unrestricted

CentaurSearch Enhancements

®


CFIMAP View Folders

Read Messages

Move Messages

CentaurMail Enhancement

®


DEMOINTEGRATION

®


PRODUCTIVITY

®


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

Implicit getters/setters – based on CFPROPERTY

Import & New keyword

CentaurCFML Enhancements

®


Server.cfc onServerStart()

Defined via ColdFusion Administrator

Nested CFTRANSACTION

CFFINALLY / finally

CFCONTINUE

2929

CentaurCFML Enhancements

®


New Operators

abort ["message"]

exit ["methodName"]

include "template"

param [type] name [=defaultValue]

throw "message“

rethrow

30

CentaurCFSCRIPT Enhancements

®


Full language support for CFSCRIPT Fully define functions and components

JavaDoc style notation for documentation and metadata

31

CentaurCFSCRIPT Enhancements

®


Desktop application for monitoring and managing ColdFusion servers

Flex-based AIR application

Run as a background service

System notification & alerts

Multi-Instance / Cluster Management

Manage / Apply settings for multiple servers

Datasources, Mappings, etc.

Apply Hotfixes

Deploy Scheduled Tasks

More…

CentaurServer Manager

®


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

33

CentaurAdvanced Caching

®


Save CFC data to a database without SQL

Build database independent applications

Bi-directional (CFC Database)

Access to Hibernate internals

3434

CentaurDatabase to Code (ORM)

®


Eclipse-based Editor HTML, DOM & CSS Code

Assist

CFML Code Assist

CFML Insight

FTP Support

Snippets

Aptana Plugin Support

CFML Debugging

Log Viewer

Extensible with CFML Framework Scaffolding

Code Generation

Project Tasks

Whatever you want

35

BoltColdFusion IDE

®


DEMOEXTENDING BOLT

Why you should care about ColdFusion

RAD

Easy to learn

Short Development Cycle

Easy to Maintain

Security made simple

Out of the Box Services

®


Easy Integration into existing Data Center

ACROBAT READERDocuments / Forms

FLASH PLAYERFlex / Flash

FLASH REMOTING

Flex / AJAX / PDFFLASH

REMOTINGAJAX REMOTING

WEB BROWSERHTML / AJAX

MOBILE DEVICESSMS / HTML

WEB SERVICESSOAP / REST

NETWORKEmail / FTP / LDAP

LEGACYCOM / CORBA

WEB SERVICESSOAP / XML

EXCHANGEContacts / CalendarMail / Tasks

DATARDBMS/XML

.NETLocal / Remote

EXCHANGEContacts / CalendarMail / Tasks

http://cloud.macromedia.com/strategy/2005/roadmap.html








®


Love other Technologies

ESL

®


MORE TO COME…Centaur & Bolt

®


CENTAUR/BOLTPUBLIC BETA

Soon

41

®


CENTAUR/BOLTRELEASE DATE

Sometime in 2009

42

Thanks !

[email protected]

http://www.cyrilhanquez.com/blog/

http://www.twitter.com/fitzchev/

Technology

AUG Belgium - Introduction to ColdFusion 9