What

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Whats New in CFMX

• Matt Liotta
• President CEO
• Montara Software, Inc.

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Agenda

• Overview
• Tag changes
• Function changes
• Small changes
• Large changes
• Nitpicking
• Q A

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Overview

• Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
• Performance Profile
• Editions
• Developer
• Professional
• Enterprise
• J2EE
• Supported platforms
• Mac OS X supported on developer edition only

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CFMX for J2EE

• Deploys CFMX as a J2EE application
• Supports
• JRun
• SunOne
• WebSphere
• WebLogic
• Not supported, but still deployable
• JBoss
• Faster than CFMX Enterprise
• Supports multiple instance on single server

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Tag Changes

• New
• CFARGUMENT
• CFCHART
• CFCOMPONENT
• CFFUNCTION
• CFIMPORT
• CFINVOKE
• CFINVOKEARGUMENT
• CFLOGIN
• CFLOGINUSER
• CFLOGOUT
• CFPROPERTY
• CFTRACE

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Tag Changes (cont.)

• Deprecated
• CFAUTHENTICATE
• CFCOMPONENT
• CFGRAPH
• CFGRAPHDATA
• CFIMPERSONATE
• CFREGISTRY (only on nix)
• CFSERVLET
• CFSERVLETPARAM

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Function Changes

• New
• GetAuthUser
• GetMetaData
• GetK2ServerDocCount
• GetK2ServerDocCountLimit
• GetProfileSections
• IsK2ServerABroker
• IsK2ServerOnline
• IsObject
• IsUserInRole
• IsXMLDoc
• IsXMLElement
• IsXMLRoot
• URLSessionFormat
• XmlChildPos
• XmlElemNew
• XmlFormat
• XmlNew
• XmlParse

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Function Changes (cont.)

• Deprecated
• AuthenticatedContext
• AuthenticatedUser
• GetCollectionLanguage
• GetCollectionPath
• GetTemplatePath
• GetVerityCollections
• IsAuthenticated
• IsAuthorized
• IsCollectionExists
• IsCollectionExternal
• IsCollectionMapped
• IsProtected
• ParameterExists

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Scopes

• All scopes are now structures
• Locking is no longer required in most cases

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Structure Changes

• Synchronized
• Variable names containing . create structs
• StructGet
• If there is no structure or array present in
  pathDesired,this function creates structures or
  arrays to make PathDesired a valid variable
  "path."

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UDF Changes

• Parameters now accessed via a struct named
  arguments
• It can still be accessed as an array though
• Parameters can be named
• UDFs can be tag based using
• CFARGUMENT
• CFFUNCTION
• CFRETURN

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Database Manipulation

• Everything is done with JDBC
• Dynamic datasources are gone
• Query of Query improved

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CFSCRIPT Changes

• No longer use reserved words
• Supports try and catch

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J2EE Integration

• Share data through scopes
• Application Accessible to J2EE through request
• Request CF and J2EE share the same request scope
• Session CF and J2EE share the same session scope
• CF must be configured to use J2EE sessions
• Built-in session replication

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XML

• New tag and functions
• XML is a new type that represents a DOM tree
• XPATH supported
• XSLT supported

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Unicode

• CF now fully supports Unicode
• New tag attributes
• CFFILE
• CFHTTP
• CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE
• New function parameters
• ToBase64
• ToString
• URLDecode
• URLEncodedFormat

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Components (CFCs)

• Gives CF OO capabilities
• Self documenting
• Supports inheritance
• Can be used as web service endpoint
• Callable from Flash MX

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Web Services

• Consumable via CFINVOKE or CreateObject
• Publishable via CFCs
• CFHTTP now supports raw XML POSTs

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Flash Integration

• Flash Remoting Allows Flash MX to talk to CFMX
• CFCs talk through methods
• CFMs talk through flash scope
• Server-side ActionScript

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Nitpicking

• Sorting
• Sort order has changed
• Dates
• New masks for date formating
• Inaccurate data functions have been fixed
• Localization
• Behavior may differ depending on JVM
• Regex
• Perl compatible
• Much faster
• File handling
• CFFILE no longer supports Windows specific
  attributes
• CFDIRECTORY no longer returns . and ..
• Comments
• Can now be placed just about anywhere
• RequestTimeOut
• Must now be done using CFSETTING

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Nitpicking (cont.)

• NumberFormat
• Returns the number unchanged if the format mask
  cannot correctly mask a number
• IsWDDX
• Properly returns FALSE for a var that is not WDDX
• IsDefined
• Can only deal with
• A simple variable
• A named variable with dot notation
• A named structure with dot notation
• GetTempDirectory
• Returns the temp directory of the Java app
  server, not the OS
• GetMetricData
• CACHEPOPS parameter is deprecated
• ListQualify
• Strictly enforces a property elements parameter
  ("all" or "char")
• CORBA
• When instantiating objects, the Naming Service
  separator format for addresses has changed from a
  dot to a forward slash
• ExpandPath
• Can now accept absolute paths (don't use web
  server virtual paths)

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Nitpicking (cont.)

• CFINCLUDE
• Can be used to include page of 0 bytes
• CFERROR
• The "monitor" option of the EXCEPTION attribute
  is deprecated
• CFCOL
• You can now construct dynamic statements
• CFSWITCH
• The CFDEFAULTCASE no longer needs to be the last
  case
• CFMODULE
• Properly uses values in the AttributeCollection
  parameter if a name conflicts with a passed
  attribute
• CFREPORT
• Makes independent connections to the DataSource
  regardless of CF Administrator settings on that
  DataSource
• CFLOG
• The THREAD, DATE, and TIME attributes are
  deprecated
• CFWDDX
• Preserves the case of column names in JavaScript
• CFPARAM
• Validates a 36 character GUID with TYPE"GUID"
• CFCATCH

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Q A

• Special thanks to Nathan Dintenfass for sharing
  content for this presentation
• Matt Liotta
• Blog http//DevilM.com
• Email mliotta_at_r337.com