CFUnited 2008 : Adobe Keynote Summary

 

• Full version Enterprise Edition free ColdFusion for Educational Use.
• Setup of CFML Advisory Commitee will help define the rules & guidelines around the use and evolution of CFML. The initial members of the committee are
• Sean Corfield (lead)
• Ben Forta (Adobe)
• Sanjeev Kumar (Adobe)
• Gert Franz (Ralio)
• Ray Camden (CF Jedi)
• Rob Brook-Bilson

Adam Lehmann's talked about some of the new features and enhancements they are working for the new version of ColdFusion "Centaur"

Language Enhancement

1. Create UDF & CFC in CFSCRIPT
2. explicit LOCAL scope keeps local variables local <cfset var="1">
   can be used anywhere in within the function
3. New tags <cffinally> and <cfcontinue>
4. Others
   • new and import keywords
   • implicit constructors
     • <cfcomponent init=" ">
     • Method name init()
     • Method with same name as component
   • implicit getters & setters – Applies to <cfproperty> which will automatically have implicit getters & setters without actual code in the cfc which can also be overridden by users version.

New Server Events using Server.cfc file

• OnServerStart
• OnServerEnd

Databases are at the core of all CF apps and integrated ORM in Centaur will dramatically simplify data integration with hibernate