2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 1 ColdFusion What’s New & What’s Next CFUNITED 2006 October 28 th, 2006

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 2 ColdFusion Roadmap Ben Forta Senior Technical Evangelist

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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.

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 4 ColdFusion MX (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

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 5 ColdFusion MX 8 (2007)  Next major update  New administrative functionality  Server monitoring  Analysis tools  Adobe product integration  Flex  LiveCycle  Breeze  New developer functionality

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 6 ColdFusion + Flex Ben Forta Senior Technical Evangelist

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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.

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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.

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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. $899 $79 9 $699$59 9 $499 $999

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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!

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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.

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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.

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 13 Flex 2 Is Available … NOW !

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 14 ColdFusion “Scorpio” Jason Delmore ColdFusion Product Manager

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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!!!

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 16 ColdFusion MX 8  Next major update  New administrative functionality  Server monitoring  Analysis tools  Adobe product integration  Flex  LiveCycle  Breeze  New developer functionality

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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!  Nothing more, sorry that’s it.  Well, not much… that would spoil the fun

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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!).

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 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!!

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 21 Adobe ColdFusion ? ColdFusion Product Marketing Manager

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 22 Tim Buntel Sr. Product Marketing Manager, ColdFusion Adobe Systems, Inc.

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 23 Marketing? Me?

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 24 Really about the business  Strategy  Position  Sell  Evolve  Partner  Prepare, train, evangelize

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 25 And still… Features!

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 26 Beyond Features  Innovate  Part of the EDBU, that’s Enterprise  Advertising and outreach  Integrate with other products  Events…

2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 27 MAX 2006  More CF coverage than recent years  120 sessions (80 or so typically), 20 CF specific!  Scorpio, Scorpio, Scorpio! October The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas

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