8000 hours of development so far - New Development/features
Timelines:
Summer 2004 - An updater (or SP) to MX 6.1 - A compilation of mostly older releases - 60 hot fixes, faster db drivers. This is an optional update as per Ben.
Fall 2004 - Beta
Early 2005 (Nov 2004 to Mar 2005) - Final release
Main topics covered and featured so far:
- Targeting and helping new users to the CF world. CF is the only easy language to pick up. PHP is too hard. ASP was hard and has been replaced with a harder language from a new user point of view. Target easier development, install and use
- Existing Developer - Features that they can really use.
- Make your users happy (end user experience)
- Improve deployment reliability and options.
Date Entry enhancements:
- skinnable forms based on Xforms.
- using cfforms by applying xsl stylesheets
- New cfinput types = password, hidden, file
- flash
- basic flex type functionality
- flex type bindings in flash controls
- <cfformgroup> to group form controls - eg horizontally
- <cfselect> has a group by feature
- Improved validation.
- IsValid() - encapsulates all validation
- flash versions of cftree and cfgrid
Printing:
- <cfdocument>
- create pdf and flash paper + others in future - rtf, excel, doc
- page break, headers, page numbers etc <cfdocumentitemtype>
- font management system using the administrator. Using pdf feature to embed fonts in pdf documents
- great for most web pages out there currently...i.e., imperfect html
- <cfreport>
- deliver reports in pdf and flash with all the groupings, sortings, drill down
- add on component to dreamweaver??? To write reports with all the CF functionality. This schema is saved as an xslt sheet that is called upon by the cfreport tag
Deployment:
- sourceless deployment
- single java archive that packages the application as well as the CF engine into one WAR or EAR
- Simplify multiple instances - administrative interface
Enhancements to dreamweaver:
- More wizards for new users as well as for quick applications. Eg Login Wizard
- Changes to cflogin - NT security / ldap
- CF Administrator functionality in dreamweaver - eg., setting datasources and debugging
Others:
- Embedded images in <cfmail>
- <cftimer> to test code run times. Allows nested as well as various display options
- Lots more xml functions. - xmlValidate(), xmlparse()
- Improved charting
- changes to CFC
Exposing Admin API:
- datasources
- change debug settings
- create own admin console
More and more to be released as each cfug meeting progresses.
Enjoy,
Dharmesh
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