Below are my notes taken from Ben Forta's talk at CF-UN. None of what is
listed below is guaranteed to be included in Blackstone. Due to time
constraints, he could only show a little but apparently some of his
talks at user groups have been going 3+ hours.
Doug
Timeline:
- CFMX 6.1 updater this fall
- not critical
- wrapper for many hotfixes
- new JDBC drivers
- Blackstone beta will be released this fall
- Blackstone will be available first quarter 2005
Goals of Blackstone
- make new developers more successful in building applications
- give current developers features they can use
- emphasis given to end user features
- improved deployment reliability
Data Entry Enhancements
- skinnable forms (changes the look of the form background)
- built in XForms support
- W3C standard <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/>
- cfform will generate XForms
- can be styled and rendered via XSL
- tags that produce applets (for example: cftree and cfgrid) will be
replaced with flash output
- ability to render forms via flash
- demonstated some very slick forms that included a tabbed interface
and an accordian interface
Printing
- add cfdocument tag
- natively produce pdf and flashpaper
(http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/productinfo/flashpaper/)
output
Reporting
- cfreport tag
- massively expanded
- uses new report builder to create an XML report definition that is
used to produce the output report
Deployment
- can deploy in bytecode format - no cfm's
- can produce a stand '.war' or '.ear' file that can be dropped into
java application server
- enterprise version will have ability to create multiple instances
right from the cf-administrator
Gateways
- the CF server will have the ability to listen for and respond to
anything that can produce a certain type of java event
- developers can build a gateway to interact with the CF server
- demonstrated a file drop gateway
- produced a text file and placed it into a directory
- the gateway produced the event
- CF server responded and picked the file out of the directory and
displayed its contents on the web page automagically
- Macromedia supposedly has a telnet session interacting with CF
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