1. BlueDragon 7.0 New Possibilities for CFML Applications Josh Adams

2. New Atlanta Confidential. | 1 © Copyright 1997-2007 About Me Josh Adams josh@newatlanta.com (678) 256-5395 Developer Evangelist for BlueDragon at New Atlanta CFML Developer Past President of the Atlanta ColdFusion User Group, Inc. and general big fan of CFUGs and the CFML community!

3. New Atlanta Confidential. | 2 © Copyright 1997-2007 Your Questions Please ask questions! Feel free to ask at any time during the presentation I will address as many questions as possible Due to time constraints some questions may go unanswered during the presentation If I do not answer your question during the presentation, I will answer you as soon as possible

4. New Atlanta Confidential. | 3 © Copyright 1997-2007 Agenda Introduction to New Atlanta and BlueDragon BlueDragon 7.0 Features BlueDragon 7.0 Demos BlueDragon Future Obtaining, Using, and Licensing BlueDragon Q&A BlueDragon Server JX License Giveaway (Maybe) Afterparty Information Further Info

5. New Atlanta Confidential. | 4 © Copyright 1997-2007 Introduction to New Atlanta Web Application Server Technology Experts BlueDragon is our 3rd generation web application platform 1. FileMaker Web Companion (Lasso) Web Publisher for FileMaker Pro databases Built in 1995, sold to Apple in 1997 Over 10 Million licenses since initial release 2. ServletExec - Servlet/JSP Container First servlet engine on the market for Microsoft IIS and Netscape Enterprise Server with Servlet 1.0 Specification support Charter members of Servlet and JSP Expert Groups (Sun's JCP) Tens of thousands of licenses since 1997 3. BlueDragon CFML Runtime with native deployment and integration on J2EE and.NET platforms New Atlanta has over 14,000 customers in 85+ countries

6. New Atlanta Confidential. | 5 © Copyright 1997-2007 New Atlanta Customers Land's End Over $1 billion in e-sales Myspace.com Over 110 million users ESRI – ArcIMS: web-based GIS ServletExec ships on ArcIMS CD American Airlines Worldwide reporting of safety incidents Yahoo! Resumix hotjobs.yahoo.com

7. New Atlanta Confidential. | 6 © Copyright 1997-2007 Our Largest Deployment: MySpace Surpasses Yahoo – Nov 2006 1.3+ billion! 145+ million! 40 billion!

8. New Atlanta Confidential. | 7 © Copyright 1997-2007 What BlueDragon Is & Does CFML ≠ ColdFusion CFML is a coding language CFML = ColdFusion Markup Language ColdFusion is software ColdFusion = Adobe's CFML application server / CFML engine ColdFusion is Adobe's deployment platform for CFML applications BlueDragon is software BlueDragon = New Atlanta's CFML application server / CFML engine BlueDragon is New Atlanta's deployment platform for CFML applications You do not need ColdFusion to use BlueDragon!

9. New Atlanta Confidential. | 8 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon Background History Oldest Java-based CFML application server: created in 1998 by a consultancy in Scotland Available commercially for 5 years: purchased and productized by New Atlanta in 2002 Platform-agnostic for 2 years:.NET edition released in 2005

10. New Atlanta Confidential. | 9 © Copyright 1997-2007 Microsoft Partnership New Atlanta is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner 1 of only approximately 150 ISV Gold Certified Partners BlueDragon.NET is a Microsoft Certified Product (Windows 2003 Server) BlueDragon.NET is a.NET Connected product BlueDragon is a SQL Server 2005 Frontrunner

11. New Atlanta Confidential. | 10 © Copyright 1997-2007 BEA licenses BlueDragon from New Atlanta Special BEA-only version Rebranded as a BEA product: BlueDragon, BEA WebLogic Edition Runs on any O/S BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 or later is available on Supported directly by BEA's world-class support organization Offered via BEA's download center BlueDragon, BEA WebLogic Edition Launched in April 2006 BEA Partnership

12. New Atlanta Confidential. | 11 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon Editions BlueDragon J2EE BlueDragon Server & Server JX BlueDragon.NET Standalone (including "Free version") Native J2EE Any J2EE app server Native.NET No need to write ASP.NET. Direct.NET platform advantages within your CFML applications

13. New Atlanta Confidential. | 12 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon Features See the "BlueDragon 7.0 CFML Enhancements" document on the New Atlanta website for full details!"BlueDragon 7.0 CFML Enhancements" document Includes both information on new BlueDragon 7.0 enhancements and enhancements present in previous BlueDragon releases Documents such long-existing BlueDragon CFML tags as CFIMAP, CFIMAGE, CFFORWARD, CFTHROTTLE, and CFZIP Documents such long-existing BlueDragon CFML functions as Render(), QuerySort(), and ListRemoveDuplicates() Documents long-existing CFC enhancements (serialization, duplication, more!) Documents long-existing enhancements to numerous CFML tags and functions (new attributes/arguments and attribute/argument values)

14. New Atlanta Confidential. | 13 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon 7.0 Features For additional information, see the "What's New in BlueDragon 7.0" document on the New Atlanta website"What's New in BlueDragon 7.0" document All features in all editions unless noted

15. New Atlanta Confidential. | 14 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon 7.0 Features Non-CFML-related Performance enhancements Support for Java 5.0 and 6.0 Note: supported on all versions of BlueDragon that are Java-based Support for MySQL 5.0, including stored procedures Earlier versions of MySQL are also still supported

16. New Atlanta Confidential. | 15 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon 7.0 Features New CFML Language Elements CFTHREAD, CFJOIN, and related tags and functions NULL keyword and IsNull() functions

17. New Atlanta Confidential. | 16 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon 7.0 Features New CFML Enhancements CACHEDUNTILCHANGE attribute for CFQUERY Note: supported exclusively on BlueDragon.NET when used with SQL Server 2005 BACKGROUND attribute for CFQUERY TYPE attribute for CFCOMPONENT Use of value "abstract" creates an abstract CFC Use of value "interface" creates a CFC interface Multiple language support in CFSEARCH Word and PDF document support in CFSEARCH

18. New Atlanta Confidential. | 17 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon 7.0 Features CFMX 6-level CFML Language Elements CFCHART New BlueDragon 7.0 features: CFCHARTLEGEND, CFCHARTTITLE, CFCHARTIMAGE, and more!

19. New Atlanta Confidential. | 18 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon 7.0 Features CFMX 7-level CFML Language Elements Application.cfc New BlueDragon 7.0 feature: onClientStart event handler New BlueDragon 7.0 feature: onMissingTemplate event handler CFDOCUMENT New BlueDragon 7.0 feature: PNG and JPEG output formats New BlueDragon 7.0 feature: multi-threaded on all editions Note: not supported on BlueDragon Server CFTIMER SOAP-related functions Miscellaneous tag attributes, functions, and function arguments

20. New Atlanta Confidential. | 19 © Copyright 1997-2007 CFMX 7 Features Not in BlueDragon 7.0 Event gateways BD 7.0 has CFTHREAD which can accomplish many of the same tasks Flash generation (Flash Paper, Flash Forms, Flash chart format) Reporting services (Report Builder, CFREPORT)

21. New Atlanta Confidential. | 20 © Copyright 1997-2007 "Scorpio" Features vs. BlueDragon 7.0 Features.NET Integration Supported by BlueDragon.NET natively; BlueDragon.NET provides true integration with.NET It appears Scorpio uses Java-to-.NET bridge technology CFIMAGE Already supported by BlueDragon (and has been for some time) Scorpio enhancements do more than current CFIMAGE in BlueDragon; expect similar enhancements in a soon-to-follow BlueDragon release

22. New Atlanta Confidential. | 21 © Copyright 1997-2007 Multi-threaded Programming Multi-threaded programming is the ability to have two or more threads executing at the same time You're already doing multi-threaded programming! Every request runs on a separate thread Multiple requests run simultaneously Now you have the ability to create your own threads that run concurrently with the request threads using CFTHREAD and its associated tags and functions!

23. New Atlanta Confidential. | 22 © Copyright 1997-2007 CFTHREAD Syntax … [Your CFML goes here] …

24. New Atlanta Confidential. | 23 © Copyright 1997-2007 Single-threaded Code Execution … … … … … … … … …

25. New Atlanta Confidential. | 24 © Copyright 1997-2007 Multi-threaded Code Execution … … … …

26. New Atlanta Confidential. | 25 © Copyright 1997-2007 Thread Details: Thread Life Thread lives for as long as it takes to execute the CFTHREAD body CFTHREAD can outlive the request thread that created it or it can finish before the request thread is finished Request thread can wait (as necessary) for a generated thread to finish This is called "joining" the thread Use the CFJOIN tag or the ThreadJoin() function Request thread can check whether or not a thread is running Use the ThreadIsAlive() function

27. New Atlanta Confidential. | 26 © Copyright 1997-2007 Joining a Thread …

28. New Atlanta Confidential. | 27 © Copyright 1997-2007 Checking for a Running Thread … myThread is alive! myThread has stopped

29. New Atlanta Confidential. | 28 © Copyright 1997-2007 Thread Details: Accessing Data You can pass data to a thread Use attribute name/value pairs You can access some variable scopes within a thread Application scope Server scope

30. New Atlanta Confidential. | 29 © Copyright 1997-2007 Passing Data to a Thread INSERT INTO Employees ( FirstName, LastName ) VALUES ( '#attributes.firstName#', '#attributes.lastName#' )

31. New Atlanta Confidential. | 30 © Copyright 1997-2007 Accessing Shared Scopes in a Thread #Application.myValue#

32. New Atlanta Confidential. | 31 © Copyright 1997-2007 Thread Details: Returning Data You can return data from a thread Use the CFRETURN tag Use output="true" in the CFTHREAD tag then generate output within the thread

33. New Atlanta Confidential. | 32 © Copyright 1997-2007 Returning Data from a Thread Running within myThread #Variables.myThread.generatedContent# #Variables.myThread.returnVariable#

34. New Atlanta Confidential. | 33 © Copyright 1997-2007 Returning Data from a Thread Name = "myVar" Value = 12 Requested Page Variables Scope Threads #Variables.myThr.returnVariable# Name = "Variables.myThr" Name = "myThr" Name = "returnVariable" Value = "some string"

35. New Atlanta Confidential. | 34 © Copyright 1997-2007 More Thread-related Tags/Functions GetAllThreads() – returns an array of thread variables representing all actively running threads created using CFTHREAD ThreadRunningTime() – returns the amount of time in milliseconds that the thread has been running ThreadStop() – halts execution of the specified thread CFINTERRUPT/ThreadInterrupt() – "wakes up" a thread "sleeping" due to CFPAUSE tag

36. New Atlanta Confidential. | 35 © Copyright 1997-2007 Multi-Threaded CFML Demo Traditional CFML: single-threaded CFML code Single stock quote obtained via web service 4 stock quotes obtained via web service in series BlueDragon 7.0 Feature: multi-threaded CFML code 4 stock quotes obtained via web service in parallel

37. New Atlanta Confidential. | 36 © Copyright 1997-2007 Multi-Threaded CFML Demo 4 web service calls in single-threaded CFML code (in series) 4 web service calls in multi-threaded CFML code (in parallel) KO BEASMSFTRHAT KO MSFT BEAS RHAT

38. New Atlanta Confidential. | 37 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon 7.0 Demos CFTHREAD and CFJOIN Concurrent processing (stock ticker demo) Asynchronous background thread (stock ticker demo) "Fire-and-forget" (logging demo) CFQUERY enhancements BACKGROUND attribute (logging demo) CACHEDUNTILCHANGE attribute (employee demo) "null" keyword and IsNull function Database null (employee demo) CFC null (employee demo)

39. New Atlanta Confidential. | 38 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon 7.0 Demos (cont.) CFC enhancements Abstract CFCs and CFC interfaces (light source demo) Application.cfc enhancements onMissingTemplate() method (demo) CFDOCUMENT enhancements SRC attribute (web page demos) PNG and JPEG output formats (web page demos) CFCHART enhancements CFCHARTRANGEMARKER, CFCHARTTITLE (demo) CFCHARTLEGEND, CFCHARTIMAGE (demo)

40. New Atlanta Confidential. | 39 © Copyright 1997-2007 BlueDragon Future Expect a minor release within a few months 64-bit Windows and Linux Expect another major release by early 2008 Windows Vista and IIS 7 integration Direct AJAX integration CFIMAGE enhancements Administration and configuration enhancements Features inspired by those in CFMX 8 We are investigating creation of a Visual Studio plug-in

41. New Atlanta Confidential. | 40 © Copyright 1997-2007 Obtaining BlueDragon Download from New Atlanta's website

42. New Atlanta Confidential. | 41 © Copyright 1997-2007 Using BlueDragon BlueDragon Server Trial, development/testing, and production: free and unlimited use for an unlimited time period (subject to licensing restrictions) All other versions Trial: free and unlimited use for 30 days Development/testing Localhost: free and unlimited use for an unlimited time period External connections: valid license key required for unlimited use for an unlimited time period Production: valid license key required for unlimited use for an unlimited time period

43. New Atlanta Confidential. | 42 © Copyright 1997-2007 Licensing BlueDragon Purchase license keys from New Atlanta's online store See the TrueBlue Partner Program Overview on New Atlanta's website Opportunities for integrated service providers Create a custom installer for your app! Opportunities for systems integrators Opportunities for hosting companies

44. New Atlanta Confidential. | 43 © Copyright 1997-2007 Q&A Got questions? Ask away!

45. New Atlanta Confidential. | 44 © Copyright 1997-2007 Software Giveaway Let's give away some software (if doing so is supported by attendance numbers)! One winner will receive a NFR license for BlueDragon Server JX 7.0

46. New Atlanta Confidential. | 45 © Copyright 1997-2007 Afterparty Brought to you this month by New Atlanta!

47. New Atlanta Confidential. | 46 © Copyright 1997-2007 Further Information See New Atlanta's website http://www.newatlanta.com Contact me josh@newatlanta.com (678) 256-5395