Known ColdFusion 8/Scorpio Facts

As the conference goes on - I thought I'd start a thread on what is public knowledge about Scorpio. Please add to this list with your comments, and I'll cut and paste into the main entry. (So thanks in advanced.) I will also flesh out the facts so if you see something covered but want to add detail, again, just write a comment.

Edited October 30, 2006: Added notes from CFUNITED 06. Also remember that this list is NOT a promise from Adobe. Things may change...

  • Image processing
    • Supposedly has lots and lots and lots of image manipulation functions.
  • Server Monitoring
  • .Net Integration
  • CFPDFFORM. This lets you populate PDF forms from CF data, as well as extracting PDF form data.
  • CFPRESENTATION. You can now create Breeze presentations from ColdFusion. Demonstrated a Breeze presentation that included flash charts, where the data was being populated via ColdFusion.

Comments (21) Oct 24, 2006 2:25 PM Views: 6035

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Sid Wing's Gravatar Not real important (to ME anyway) on the image manipulation stuff... but the Server Monitoring and .NET integration are HUGE (living in a Windows/MS world here)
# Posted By Sid Wing | 10/24/06 2:34 PM
Ryan Guill's Gravatar Just curious here, and I know BlueDragon.net already has this, but what sort of things will the .net integration allow you to do, even hypothetically.
# Posted By Ryan Guill | 10/24/06 2:54 PM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar I'm in the class right now taking notes. I'll post an entry just on the class, and will be updating this post.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 10/24/06 2:58 PM
Ryan Guill's Gravatar Awesome, thanks!
# Posted By Ryan Guill | 10/24/06 2:59 PM
Dan Sorensen's Gravatar I'm really interested to see how the makers of Photoshop and Coldfusion will address image manipulation, although I've been pretty happy with the Alagad Image Component.
# Posted By Dan Sorensen | 10/24/06 3:14 PM
Ben Nadel's Gravatar It's nice to see that Image manipulation is finally making the cut. I agree that Alagad has done some great things, but some things that need to really be done are better image compression / quality control. Right now, the export I get from FireWorks is much better than the resizing of an image with Image.cfc. Also, it would be nice to read and save more file formats. Can't wait to see how it ends up :)
# Posted By Ben Nadel | 10/24/06 3:38 PM
Ryan Guill's Gravatar You said in another post that 8 will support java 1.5
# Posted By Ryan Guill | 10/24/06 7:24 PM
Giampaolo Bellavite's Gravatar About image manipulation, I've already solved my basic needs with this cfc from Massimo Foti:
http://www.olimpo.ch/tmt/cfc/tmt_img/

I'm only wondering which could be "the lots and lots and lots of image manipulation functions", they should make the big difference :)

Server Monitoring sounds fantastic, we are waiting for it!
# Posted By Giampaolo Bellavite | 10/25/06 5:31 AM
Ryan Guill's Gravatar I saw a comment somewhere that cf 8 has 64 bit support for sure, is this true?
# Posted By Ryan Guill | 10/25/06 7:13 AM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar ryan: don't know
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 10/25/06 8:42 AM
Rob's Gravatar What's the current ship date for Scorpio anyway? Everything I've seen sounds like it's a few months off yet, possibly Q1 2007?
# Posted By Rob | 10/25/06 10:07 AM
Andy Allan's Gravatar To paraphrase Ben Forta.... "mid 2007, so any time between Jan 2nd 2007 and December 30th 2007"
# Posted By Andy Allan | 10/27/06 6:13 AM
Ryan Guill's Gravatar So is this really all we know about cf 8? is there confirmation of interfaces? (not that I am for or against interfaces)
# Posted By Ryan Guill | 10/30/06 6:58 AM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar It is everything I know of that has been said in public.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 10/30/06 8:09 AM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar I stand corrected - I had some notes from CFUNITED 06 as well. I'm going to edit the blog entry now. Please re-read in 5 minutes.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 10/30/06 8:10 AM
Andy Allan's Gravatar Tom Jordahl mentioned interfaces during the cf.Objective() keynote back in March... but you'd need to get someone to confirm exactly what he said.
# Posted By Andy Allan | 10/30/06 9:37 AM
sam's Gravatar CF better pull something out this time. I was doing cfm for more than 8 years now and it is starts to look like old person. Even adobe starts do their own spry examples in PHP instead cfm.
# Posted By sam | 5/2/07 4:44 PM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar I don't know Sam - CF7 is very nice. I don't quite see how you can call it 'old'. That aside - I think CF8 will be amazing.

THe Spry team at Adobe is 2 people. And the last set of code had PHP and CF examples.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/2/07 5:03 PM
CM's Gravatar One of the biggest additions deals with AJAX. There are some great new tags that will incorporate AJAX and the asyncrynous calling of cfc functions. The demos Ben gave at the seminar amazed us all. It automatically generates all necessary javascript on the fly.
# Posted By CM | 5/10/07 2:08 PM
Animal's Gravatar What's this I hear about integrating The Ext Javascript library ( http://extjs.com/ ) into CF8?
# Posted By Animal | 6/11/07 9:55 AM
Raymond Camden's Gravatar Please see the public release at labs. It will answer a lot. :)
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 6/11/07 10:14 AM
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