1. Adobe
ColdFusion
User Group Tour 2009
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2. ColdFusion
STATE OF THE
UNION
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3. ColdFusion
Media Coverage
 ColdFusion 8 Awards
 JOLT Award – Best in Web Development
 CODiE Award – Best Wed Services Solution
 Great Indian Devleoper Summit – Best in Web Development
 ColdFusion covered by major tech news outlets
 Industry analysts are starting to “get it”
 Recommending ColdFusion for new projects
 Encourage ColdFusion expansion in existing organizations
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4. ColdFusion PopulationGrowth
1000
Developers (1Ks)
900
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5. Centaur & Bolt
WHAT WE KNOW
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6. Centaur
Themes
Richness Integration Productivity
 Flash Builder 4 Integration  PDF Enhancements  CF Builder
 Exposed Service Layer  Office Files  ORM
 AIR Online Offline  Server Manager
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7. RICHNESS
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8. Centaur
Exposed Service Layer
 Direct access to ColdFusion services
 Query Service
 Mail
 Document Services
 Imaging
 Charting/Graphs
 Exchange
 More…
 Available as SOAP & AMF
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9. Centaur
Rich Internet Applications
 AS3 / MXML Libraries for Adobe Flex
 Consumer CF Services
 AS3 Data Persistence Library for Adobe AIR
 Online / Offline Data Synchronization
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10. Centaur
Enhanced UI Controls
 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
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11. INTEGRATION
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12. Centaur
PDF Enhancements
 Add/Remove Headers and Footers
 Optimize PDF’s
 Remove Unused Elements
 Extract Content
 Text
 Images
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13. Centaur
Office Interoperability
 Create, Read & Update
Excel Spreadsheets
 Dynamically generate
PowerPoint Presentations
 Create Flash Presentations from
PowerPoint
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14. Centaur
Portal Integration
 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
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15. Centaur
Search Enhancements
 Enhanced search support
 Classic Search: Autonomy Verity K2
 Enhanced Search: Apache Lucene / Solr
 Open source and unrestricted
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16. Centaur
Mail Enhancement
 CFIMAP
 View Folders
 Read Messages
 Move Messages
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17. PRODUCTIVITY
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18. Centaur
CFML Enhancements
 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
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19. Centaur
CFML Enhancements
 Server.cfc
 onServerStart()
 Defined via ColdFusion Administrator
 Nested CFTRANSACTION
 CFFINALLY / finally
 CFCONTINUE
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20. Centaur
CFSCRIPT Enhancements
 New Operators
 abort ["message"]
 exit ["methodName"]
 include "template"
 param [type] name [=defaultValue]
 throw "message“
 rethrow
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21. Centaur
CFSCRIPT Enhancements
 Full language support for CFSCRIPT
 Fully define functions and components
 JavaDoc style notation for documentation and metadata
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22. Centaur
Server Manager
 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…
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23. Centaur
Advanced Caching
 Object Cache
 Save / Retrieve objects from a built-in cache
 Programmatic access to cache metadata / properties
cacheGet()
cachePut()
cacheGetMetaData()
etc.
 Template Cache
 Cache page fragment or entire templates
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24. Centaur
Database to Code (ORM)
 Save CFC data to a database without SQL
 Build database independent applications
 Bi-directional (CFC  Database)
 Access to Hibernate internals
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25. Bolt
ColdFusion IDE
 Eclipse-based Editor
 HTML, DOM & CSS Code  Log Viewer
Assist
 CFML Code Assist
 Extensible with CFML
 Framework Scaffolding
 CFML Insight
 Code Generation
 FTP Support  Project Tasks
 Snippets  Whatever you want
 Aptana Plugin Support
 CFML Debugging
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26. Bolt
ColdFusion IDE
 Aptana Plugin Support  Extensible with CFML
 AJAX Libraries  Framework Scaffolding
 ExtJS, jQuery, Adobe Spry,  Code Generation
more…  Project Tasks
 Adobe AIR  Whatever you want
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27. Comparing ColdFusion Tools
HTML, DOM & CSS Code
Assist
Design View (WYSIWYG)
AJAX & JavaScript Insight
JavaScript Debugging
CFML Code Assist
CFML Code Insight
CFML Debugging
CFML Refactoring
CFML ORM Support
Extensible w/ CFML
FTP Support
Database Tools
Real-time Log View
Custom CFML Code Assist
CFML Framework Support
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1. When installed with Adobe ColdFusion 8 Extensions for Eclipse