Keeping Current with ColdFusion - Adobe Max 2011

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Keeping Current With ColdFusion

Rupesh Kumar | Engg Mgr

Hemant Khandelwal | Sr Engg Mgr


Agenda

Modern Web development Challenges How ColdFusion has evolved to meet those challenges How Zeus (CF-Next) takes you further

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Web development Evolution

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Simple text & images

Dynamic, CSS

HTML5, WebSocket, Multi-screen

AJAX, Flash, powerful clients


Challenges of Web Development today

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More interactive, richer experiences Multiple devices New technology trends Social Multiple systems & their interoperability Performance & caching Newer deployment models


ColdFusion continues “Making hard things easy”

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Developer Productivity

Make productivity easier

Enterprise Glue

Make Enterprise Integration easier

Expressive Applications

Make RIA development easier


Expressive Applications


AJAX support

Built-in AJAX UI controls AJAX plumbing and JSON support

Use more power with JQuery JSON support is the glue

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AJAX Plumbing

UI Widgets

JSON Support

BIND

CF data types available in JSON format

Fetch data/markup and invoke logic on server easily

Quick & easy way to create AJAX UI, cfwindow, cftree, cfgrid, upload etc


RIA with Flex

CF & flex integration Exposed services layer (available from SOAP & AMF) MXML tags for CF tags

Richer experiences

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HTML/JavaScript

Flex/Flash

AMFcfc



Zeus & HTML5

Charting Websocket Mobile Media Player

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Charting

Charting made easy with HTML5

Demo

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Web Sockets

Full duplex, bi-directional socket communication

"Real" Real time as compared to polling, long polling and Streaming

Very Small data overhead 2 bytes as compared to few hundred bytes (for headers)

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WebSockets in Zeus

Out of box support Pub-sub applications over websocket Simple APIs for sending and receiving messages Create Socket

<cfwebsocket name=“socket" onMessage=messageHandler subscribeTo="stocks">

Publish messages from client

socket.publish("stocks", message);

Server APIs

WSSendMessage(message)

WSPublish("stocks", message)

Advanced configurations and options available

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HTTP

cfmWeb socket


Media Player

CF 9 Easiest way to embed video in web page Complete programmatic control Plays in Flash player

Zeus HTML 5 enabled Cross browser/devices Plays all the formats supported by HTML 5 and Flash Seamless fallback on HTML/Flash Dynamic Streaming Strobe Player/OSMF based Extensible

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Mobile

CF can detect device that is accessing the app and provide device details CF pages can be optimized for mobile delivery Apps can use form factor, JQuery mobile for better user experience Geolocation

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Enterprise Glue


Enterprise Hub

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Exchange Server Integration

CF 9 Microsoft Exchange client tags (not Windows specific) Supports Mail, Calendar, Contact, and Task

Zeus Exchange 2010 Folder Operations – Create/Update/Copy/Move/Delete Check User/Room Availability

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Sharepoint Integration

CFSHAREPOINT Query SharePoint Alter SharePoint

Single Sign-on Webparts

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REST Services

Built over HTTP - natural fit for Web Simple, Light and Easy Much easier to build than SOAP User friendly URI - http://localhost/authors/abc/ Lower Bandwidth Available to XMLHttpRequest (AJAX) Operate on resources using verbs Cacheable

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Rest Services with Zeus

Simple framework for publishing REST services http://localhost:8500/rest/restdemo/art : will return array of arts

http://localhost:8500/rest/restdemo/art/1 : will return art with id=1

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Developer Productivity


Database to Code (ORM )

Save CFC data to a database without SQL More object oriented Build database independent applications Bi-directional (CFC Database)

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Caching : <CFCache>

Makes your application perform and scale EHCache Based Configurable through lib/ehcache.xml or setCacheProperties Template cache

Entire Pages Fragment Dependencies

Object cache Application aware

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Office Integration

Create, Read & Update Excel Spreadsheets

Generate PDF from Word, PowerPoint

Dynamically generate PowerPoint

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Text Search - Solr

Verity replaced with Solr Complete Feature Parity with Verity No document limit Data Import Handler for database indexing Indexing and search based on dynamic custom fields Support for adding languages for search Reload individual collections

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ColdFusion Builder

Eclipse based IDE Code Assist Code Insight Debugging Server management

Extendable with ColdFusion Allows web developers to power up

their IDE with languages they are expert in

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Q&A

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Keeping Current with ColdFusion - Adobe Max 2011