ColdFusion What’s New & What’s Next

1. ColdFusionWhat’s New & What’s Next CFUNITED 2006 October 28th, 2006

2. ColdFusion Roadmap Ben Forta Senior Technical Evangelist

3. Building The Future ColdFusion • ColdFusion MX 7 has been an incredibly successful product: • Over 30,000 servers shipped. • Planning for the next major version of ColdFusion began prior to the Adobe acquisition. • At CFUNTED 2005 we announced that we were starting work on “Scorpio”, the next major version of ColdFusion. • Work on Scorpio continues, but a slight detour was taken to better align ColdFusion with Flex.

4. ColdFusion MX 7.0.2 (Today!) • Update to ColdFusion MX 7 • Flex 2 integration • Updated Flash Remoting • New Flex Data Services adapter • New Flex Messaging gateway • Flex Builder 2 ColdFusion extensions • Updated reporting engine • Hot-fix and patch rollup

5. ColdFusion MX 8 (2007) • Next major update • New administrative functionality • Server monitoring • Analysis tools • Adobe product integration • Flex • LiveCycle • Breeze • New developer functionality

6. ColdFusion + Flex Ben Forta Senior Technical Evangelist

7. ColdFusion As A Flex 1.x Back-End • Flex is used to build sophisticated application front-ends that run within the Flash player. • Flex is back-end agnostic: • Flex relies on HTTP, SOAP, and AMF to talk to back-end systems. • Back-ends can therefore be just about anything, including ColdFusion. • ColdFusion had no specific Flex awareness: • Support for processing requests received via SOAP or AMF part of core ColdFusion.

8. ColdFusion & Flex 2 • ColdFusion and Flex 2 were designed to work with, and compliment, each other. • ColdFusion is very Flex aware, and Flex Builder 2 is very ColdFusion aware.

9. Flex 2 Pricing • Flex Builder 2 costs • Flex 2 SDK is FREE! • Compiler and framework. • Flex Data Services Express is FREE! • Single CPU, no clustering. $499 $599 $699 $899 $999 $799

10. Flex 2 Deployment Model • Flex 2 applications can be deployed in two ways: • 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). • 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. • Although many will indeed want to leverage Flex Data Services. • Basic FDS functionality will be made available for FREE!

11. Flex 2: ColdFusion Integration • Updated Flash Remoting. • All versions of CF. • A new Flex Data Services adapter. • All versions of CF. • A new messaging gateway. • CF Enterprise only.

12. Flex Builder 2: ColdFusion Awareness • Automatic conversion between ColdFusion Component and ActionScript classes. • Data abstraction wizards. • RDS integration. • File system. • Data sources. • SQL query builder. • Service browser. • Full application generation.

13. Flex 2 Is Available … NOW!

14. ColdFusion “Scorpio” Jason Delmore ColdFusion Product Manager

15. Introductions • Who is this Guy? And what is he doing here! • Spent the last 7+ years building applications in ColdFusion • Last position was Director of Engineering for Deploy Solutions, a leading provider of Hiring and Talent Management Software • A familiar story… • The company wanted to standardize on Java (JSP and POJO) • Convinced them that there were other choices… they agreed and started investigating which way to go • Unfortunately, the two choices they wanted to investigate were Java and .NET • Dave Gruber and Tim Buntel helped me argue that ColdFusion was a third possibility and ultimately they decided on a ColdFusion/Java Hybrid! • I have been at Adobe for 4 weeks my primary focus has been Scorpio • My new job is to play with all this really cool stuff before anyone else even knows about!!!

16. ColdFusion MX 8 • Next major update • New administrative functionality • Server monitoring • Analysis tools • Adobe product integration • Flex • LiveCycle • Breeze • New developer functionality

17. ColdFusion MX 8 • What else??? • What we’re ready to tell you. • Okay…It’s focused on innovation! • Over 200 Engineering Weeks of Development Already! • Several features are ready for Alpha! • Some additional hints at what we are doing • Support for more platforms! • Improved development tools for building your applications faster! • We are Adobe… look for us to leverage other Adobe technologies! • Well, not much… that would spoil the fun • Nothing more, sorry that’s it.

18. ColdFusion MX 8 - Demo • CFPDFForm • Populate PDF Forms directly from your ColdFusion application • Extract data from a PDF Form Document • Automate and streamline document based processes

19. ColdFusion MX 8 - Demo • CFPresentation • Build complex Presentations in real-time • Run reports and save them as a dashboard for viewing later! • Create training materials directly from your live application (no need to go and screen capture every page ever again!).

20. ColdFusion MX 8 • That was just a taste of what’s to come. • Want to learn more about Scorpio??? • Well, you will just have to wait! • We are currently planning our next round of customer validation. • My job, is to be your advocate! • Please feel free to give me your thoughts and opinions on where ColdFusion should be heading! • And did I mention… I get to play with all this cool stuff before anyone even knows about it!!

21. Adobe ColdFusion ? ColdFusion Product Marketing Manager

22. Tim Buntel Sr. Product Marketing Manager, ColdFusion Adobe Systems, Inc.

23. Marketing? Me?

24. Really about the business • Strategy • Position • Sell • Evolve • Partner • Prepare, train, evangelize

25. And still… Features!

26. Beyond Features • Innovate • Part of the EDBU, that’s Enterprise • Advertising and outreach • Integrate with other products • Events…

27. October 23-26The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas MAX 2006 • More CF coverage than recent years • 120 sessions (80 or so typically), 20 CF specific! • Scorpio, Scorpio, Scorpio!