This document discusses how ColdFusion has evolved to meet modern web development challenges and how the new Zeus release takes it further. It covers how ColdFusion supports rich interactive applications through AJAX, Flex, HTML5 charting, websockets and mobile support. It also looks at ColdFusion's role as an enterprise integration hub through features like Exchange, SharePoint and RESTful web services integration. The document concludes by addressing developer productivity features in ColdFusion like ORM, caching, office integration and the new ColdFusion Builder IDE.

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Keeping Current With ColdFusion
Rupesh Kumar | Engg Mgr
Hemant Khandelwal | Sr Engg Mgr

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Agenda
 Modern Web development Challenges
 How ColdFusion has evolved to meet those challenges
 How Zeus (CF-Next) takes you further
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Web development Evolution
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Simple text
& images
Dynamic,
CSS
HTML5,
WebSocket, Multi-
screen
AJAX, Flash,
powerful clients

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Challenges of Web Development today
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 More interactive, richer experiences
 Multiple devices
 New technology trends
 Social
 Multiple systems & their interoperability
 Performance & caching
 Newer deployment models

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ColdFusion continues “Making hard things easy”
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Developer Productivity
Make productivity easier
Enterprise Glue
Make Enterprise Integration easier
Expressive Applications
Make RIA development easier

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Expressive
Applications

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AJAX support
 Built-in AJAX UI controls
 AJAX plumbing and JSON support
 Use more power with JQuery
 JSON support is the glue
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AJAX Plumbing
UI Widgets
JSON Support
B
I
N
D
CF data types available
in JSON format
Fetch data/markup and
invoke logic on server easily
Quick & easy way to create AJAX
UI, cfwindow, cftree, cfgrid, upload
etc

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RIA with Flex
 CF & flex integration
 Exposed services layer (available from SOAP & AMF)
 MXML tags for CF tags
 Richer experiences
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HTML/
JavaScript
Flex/
Flash
AMF
cfc

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Zeus & HTML5
 Charting
 Websocket
 Mobile
 Media Player
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Charting
 Charting made easy with HTML5
 Demo
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Web Sockets
 Full duplex, bi-directional socket communication
 "Real" Real time as compared to polling, long polling and Streaming
 Very Small data overhead
 2 bytes as compared to few hundred bytes (for headers)
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WebSockets in Zeus
 Out of box support
 Pub-sub applications over websocket
 Simple APIs for sending and receiving messages
 Create Socket
 <cfwebsocket name=“socket" onMessage=messageHandler subscribeTo="stocks">
 Publish messages from client
socket.publish("stocks", message);
 Server APIs
WSSendMessage(message)
WSPublish("stocks", message)
 Advanced configurations and options available
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HTTP
cfm
Web socket

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Media Player
 CF 9
 Easiest way to embed video in web page
 Complete programmatic control
 Plays in Flash player
 Zeus
 HTML 5 enabled
 Cross browser/devices
 Plays all the formats supported by HTML 5 and Flash
 Seamless fallback on HTML/Flash
 Dynamic Streaming
 Strobe Player/OSMF based
 Extensible
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Mobile
 CF can detect device that is accessing the app and provide device details
 CF pages can be optimized for mobile delivery
 Apps can use form factor, JQuery mobile for better user experience
 Geolocation
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Enterprise Glue

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Enterprise Hub
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Exchange Server Integration
 CF 9
 Microsoft Exchange client tags (not Windows specific)
 Supports Mail, Calendar, Contact, and Task
 Zeus
 Exchange 2010
 Folder Operations – Create/Update/Copy/Move/Delete
 Check User/Room Availability
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Sharepoint Integration
 CFSHAREPOINT
 Query SharePoint
 Alter SharePoint
 Single Sign-on
 Webparts
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REST Services
 Built over HTTP - natural fit for Web
 Simple, Light and Easy
 Much easier to build than SOAP
 User friendly URI - http://localhost/authors/abc/
 Lower Bandwidth
 Available to XMLHttpRequest (AJAX)
 Operate on resources using verbs
 Cacheable
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Rest Services with Zeus
 Simple framework for publishing REST services
 http://localhost:8500/rest/restdemo/art : will return array of arts
 http://localhost:8500/rest/restdemo/art/1 : will return art with id=1
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Developer
Productivity

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Database to Code (ORM )
 Save CFC data to a database without SQL
 More object oriented
 Build database independent applications
 Bi-directional (CFC Database)
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Caching : <CFCache>
 Makes your application perform and scale
 EHCache Based
 Configurable through lib/ehcache.xml or setCacheProperties
 Template cache
 Entire Pages
 Fragment
 Dependencies
 Object cache
 Application aware
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Office Integration
 Create, Read & Update Excel Spreadsheets
 Generate PDF from Word, PowerPoint
 Dynamically generate PowerPoint
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Text Search - Solr
 Verity replaced with Solr
 Complete Feature Parity with Verity
 No document limit
 Data Import Handler for database indexing
 Indexing and search based on dynamic custom fields
 Support for adding languages for search
 Reload individual collections
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ColdFusion Builder
 Eclipse based IDE
 Code Assist
 Code Insight
 Debugging
 Server management
 Extendable with ColdFusion
 Allows web developers to power up
their IDE with languages they are expert in
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Q&A
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