What's New In Coldfusion 9 - Adobe COLDFUSION 9 Manual

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DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS

What's new in ColdFusion 9

ColdFusion 9 offers new and enhanced features that help you develop and manage applications effectively. This release

provides improved application performance with more granular control over code, templates, and applications.

The following is a list of top new features for ColdFusion 9.

ColdFusion Object-relational mapping (ColdFusion ORM) is a powerful Rapid Application Development (RAD)

solution to build data-centric applications. It provides a bridge between relational databases and ColdFusion

components by allowing you to build applications using only objects, without writing any SQL code. It uses the open-

source Hibernate library as the underlying engine.

ColdFusion ORM provides:

• Enterprise infrastructure for Rapid Application Development

• In-built performance optimization that include caching and lazy loading

• Cleaner and more manageable application code

• Database vendor independence

For more information, see

Flex and AIR integration

Adobe AIR applications

Offline application support for AIR applications includes data persistence and synchronization.

Offline capabilities

ColdFusion uses SQLite in the client and ORM on the server to automatically manage conflict resolution and data

synchronization when the application comes back online.

For AIR/Flex clients to access ColdFusion services. The MXML tags can map to ColdFusion tags

ActionScript proxies

on the server.

For more information, see

Offline AIR Application

Enhanced Flash Remoting

Flash Remoting has been re-engineered in ColdFusion 9 to allow high performance and faster remoting. This release

supports circular reference.

For more information, see

Using Flash Remoting

Integration with BlazeDS

BlazeDS allows messaging support for ColdFusion. By default, ColdFusion installs BlazeDS.

Language enhancements

You can now use the following basic language constructs:

Language constructs

Last updated 8/5/2010