First, Adobe has released information about the upcoming version of ColdFusion (which is currently codenamed Centaur). This version has some exciting features including (pulled from the labs page):
Get more information on Centaur at Adobe Labs.
Second, Adobe has announced that there will be an official IDE for ColdFusion, codenamed Bolt. This IDE will have some exciting features for ColdFusion developers:
Get more information on Bolt at Adobe Labs.
]]>- Have they tackled the issue of cftransaction issue with multiple databases.
- Does the cf ide support coldfusion frameworks.
- Coldfusion cold generation from templates, or the popular dao
These are issues that direct impact on efficiency and productivity.
We are excited all the same.
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]]>CF9 is mostly a AIR integration release, but finally (hopefully, adobe always screws oo & cfscript up) we can start to utilize normal oo constructs and ditch the cfml. Unless of course new, finally and continue are not supported in script.
]]>Where is strictly typed numbers (int, float, double)? Will the new keyword automatically call init() or will there be a new constructor method? ORM is a very inefficient way to deal with relational data. Will the implicit getters and setters only work for this scope vars, right now you have to use variables scope if you want any encapsulation? Will they add private, public, protected modifiers to this scope for instance vars? Why even have implicit getters and setters? Often I need to validate, transform or trim the argument to a setter, and format the output of a getter. Just add a insert getters/setters function in the ide like eclipse has for java.
There is a reason we have been moving our development away from Coldfusion. A big part of that was lack of a decent IDE, but now that we are using java Coldfusion seems like a childs language. Each release adds a feature that could be cool had them implemented it right, but adobe always fails.
]]>Here are some things CF 9 needs badly:
- CFIIS - Finally give us some site creation automation control. This should have been in 6 and every year never seems to make it.
-Expand CFExchange giving access to setup and manage accounts not just use them. Another automation tool CF lacks. I wonder how many developers building big systems out there want to have to manually key in every request to make a mailbox.
-CFDeploy, another huge automation feature that doesn't exist. This takes a zip file deploys it to a specified location AND can automaticly can set application variables to make the site useful in an automated envirnoment.
-Force Flash to add the Flash Remoting libary back into Flash so developer can use CF web services in their apps again. It assumes quite a bit to think everyone uses Flex or is willing to use AS2 and take a huge performance hit to use Flash Remoting. This is one of the worst release decsions I've seen ever.
With out these features any upgrades for CF are worthless to me
- CF8 Enterprise Developer
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