Known ColdFusion 8/Scorpio Facts

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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.

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Archived Comments

Comment 1 by Sid Wing posted on 10/24/2006 at 11:34 PM

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)

Comment 2 by Ryan Guill posted on 10/24/2006 at 11:54 PM

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.

Comment 3 by Raymond Camden posted on 10/24/2006 at 11:58 PM

I'm in the class right now taking notes. I'll post an entry just on the class, and will be updating this post.

Comment 4 by Ryan Guill posted on 10/24/2006 at 11:59 PM

Awesome, thanks!

Comment 5 by Dan Sorensen posted on 10/25/2006 at 12:14 AM

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.

Comment 6 by Ben Nadel posted on 10/25/2006 at 12:38 AM

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 :)

Comment 7 by Ryan Guill posted on 10/25/2006 at 4:24 AM

You said in another post that 8 will support java 1.5

Comment 8 by Giampaolo Bellavite posted on 10/25/2006 at 2:31 PM

About image manipulation, I've already solved my basic needs with this cfc from Massimo Foti:
http://www.olimpo.ch/tmt/cf...

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!

Comment 9 by Ryan Guill posted on 10/25/2006 at 4:13 PM

I saw a comment somewhere that cf 8 has 64 bit support for sure, is this true?

Comment 10 by Raymond Camden posted on 10/25/2006 at 5:42 PM

ryan: don't know

Comment 11 by Rob posted on 10/25/2006 at 7:07 PM

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?

Comment 12 by Andy Allan posted on 10/27/2006 at 3:13 PM

To paraphrase Ben Forta.... "mid 2007, so any time between Jan 2nd 2007 and December 30th 2007"

Comment 13 by Ryan Guill posted on 10/30/2006 at 5:58 PM

So is this really all we know about cf 8? is there confirmation of interfaces? (not that I am for or against interfaces)

Comment 14 by Raymond Camden posted on 10/30/2006 at 7:09 PM

It is everything I know of that has been said in public.

Comment 15 by Raymond Camden posted on 10/30/2006 at 7:10 PM

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.

Comment 16 by Andy Allan posted on 10/30/2006 at 8:37 PM

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.

Comment 17 by sam posted on 5/3/2007 at 1:44 AM

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.

Comment 18 by Raymond Camden posted on 5/3/2007 at 2:03 AM

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.

Comment 19 by CM posted on 5/10/2007 at 11:08 PM

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.

Comment 20 by Animal posted on 6/11/2007 at 6:55 PM

What's this I hear about integrating The Ext Javascript library ( http://extjs.com/ ) into CF8?

Comment 21 by Raymond Camden posted on 6/11/2007 at 7:14 PM

Please see the public release at labs. It will answer a lot. :)