ColdFusion 9: What’s New | CFUnited 2009

ColdFusion Builder IDE

• Eclipse-Based Editor
  • CFML Code Assist
  • CFML Insight
  • CFML Debugging
  • CFML
  • ORM Insight
  • CFML HTML, Dom & CSS Code Assist
  • CFML JavaScript & AJAX Insight
    • jQuery, ExtJS, more!
  • XML Editor
  • Code Snippets
  • FTP / SFTP Support
  • Tail-View Log Viewer (live)
  • Server Management
  • Extendible (using CFML as well)

ColdFusion 9: What’s New

• CFIMAP Support
• PDF Enhancements
  • Create PDF Packages (like a zip file with multiple types of files)
  • Add/Remove Headers and Footers
  • Optimize PDF’s
    • Remove unused Elements
    • Down-size images
  • Extract Text / Images
  • High Quality Thumbnails
• CFMAP – Google Maps
• CFSPREADSHEET
  • Create
  • Read
  • Merge
  • Support for
    • Excel 97, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2008
    • Open Office Spreadsheets
• CFPRESENTATION
  • Generate PPT files from CFML/.HTML content
  • Convert PPT to HTML or FLASH
• SharePoint Integration
• CFSHAREPOINT for easy management of SharePoint
  • Sites, site templates, sub-sites, web parts and work spaces
  • Lists including data, views, and alerts and querying against lists
  • Users, permissions, site groups, cross-site groups, security groups, and distribution groups.
  • Log on to a SharePoint site that is using forms-based authentication
  • And many more management features
• Database to Code (ORM)
  • Save CFC data to a database without SQL
  • Build database independent applications
  • Bi-directional (CFC <- -> Database)
  • Powered by the industry leading Hibernate framework
• 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
• Lucene Solr
  • New Full-Text Search Engine
    • Advanced Replication / Caching
    • No document limit
  • Verity might be officially deprecated
    • Verity > Solr migration tool
• Exposed Service Layer (CFaaS)
  • 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
• AS3 / MXML Libraries for Adobe Flex
  • Consumer CF Services
• High-speed Flash Remoting
• AS3 Data Persistence Library for Adobe AIR
  • Online / Offline Data Synchronization
• Updated UI Controls
  • ExtJS 3.0+ (partner with now)
• Powerful new controls
  • Multi-File Upload
  • Enhanced Data Grid
  • Progress Indicator
  • Message Box
  • Sliders
  • Accordion Layouts
  • Google Maps
  • Much More!
• Server Management
  • Awesome Multiple servers
  • Apply Hot Fixes
  • Diff Servers
  • and more.

This is Awesome stuff!

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