ColdFusion User Group

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Welcome!

• ColdFusion User Group
• November 29th, 2007

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Adobe MAX 2007

• Sept. 30th Oct. 3rd

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Background Information

• Jeff Cookle
• Hormel Foods Corporation
• Certified ColdFusion Developer
• Certified Lotus Notes Application Developer

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Agenda

• Adobe MAX Introduction
• Adobe MAX Themes
• ColdFusion Highlights

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Adobe MAX Introduction

• Adobe Max Video Introduction
• Brian Chizen, CEO of Adobe
• Conference Overview

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Adobe MAX Themes

• FLEX
• AIR
• AJAX
• Hosted Services
• Designer Features
• ColdFusion

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Flex

• Allows Development and Deployment of
  cross-platform, Rich Internet Applications, based
  on flash.
• XML based
• Portions of it are open-sourced.
• The Flex SDK comes with a set of user interface
  components including buttons, list boxes, trees,
  data grids, several text controls, and various
  layout containers. Charts and graphs are
  available as an add-on.

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AJAX

• ColdFusion 8 has built-in Ajax tags
• AJAX is truly bringing next generation web
  applications to consumers.
• Changing the way developers are building
  applications.

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AIR

• Adobe Integrated Runtime(AIR) is a cross-platform
  runtime that allows you to leverage your existing
  web applications skills to build and deploy Rich
  Internet Applications (RIAs) to the desktop

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AIR (continued) What it provides?

• Flash runtime WebKit pdf renderer
• No browser dependency
• Leverages existing web development skills
• HTML, Javascript, Ajax, Flex, Flash
• Much easier than traditional desktop
• Application like any other desktop
• Cross platform installer
• Rich set of API to work with File, Network, Local
  Database, window, menu, etc.
• Much more responsive than web application as UI
  is already present.
• Ability to go offline and then re-synch when back
  online.
• Local storage on disk or local database SQLite
• AIR applications can communicate with each other.

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AIR (continued)

• Sample Applications
• CF pages can run inside of an AIR application,
  but only within a frame in html. Example

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Hosted Services

• Scene 7 video editing online
• Adobe Share Similar to google documents, but
  flashed based.
• https//share.adobe.com/adc/adc.do
• MS Office Integration
• Flashpaper on steriods
• Photoshop image editing online

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Designer Features

• Developer vs. Designer
• Thermo RIA Design Tool
• Site starts as PhotoShop Images with layers
• Generates Flex Source Code
• Modify and add data connections to pages.
• Can then use CF to bind to these pages
• http//www.adobe.com/cfusion/xd/inspire/index.cfm

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ColdFusion

• ColdFusion 8
• Future AIR and ColdFusion
• CF tag changes to accommodate AIR application.
• CF to utilize local database
• Offline and online mode.
• Ability to take CF applications remotely.

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ColdFusion (continued)

• CF Platforms
• Future of JRun/JBoss
• Adobe ColdFusion Team
• CF Applications increase in CF-based solutions.
• Next Release Centaur

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Questions?

• Thanks!