Cold Fusion Whats New Whats Next CFUNITED 2006

Cold. Fusion What’s New & What’s Next CFUNITED 2006 October 28 th, 2006 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 1

Cold. Fusion Roadmap Ben Forta Senior Technical Evangelist 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 2

Building The Future Cold. Fusion § Cold. Fusion MX 7 has been an incredibly successful product: § Over 30, 000 servers shipped. § Planning for the next major version of Cold. Fusion began prior to the Adobe acquisition. § At CFUNTED 2005 we announced that we were starting work on “Scorpio”, the next major version of Cold. Fusion. § Work on Scorpio continues, but a slight detour was taken to better align Cold. Fusion with Flex. 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 3

Cold. Fusion MX 7. 0. 2 (Today!) § Update to Cold. Fusion MX 7 § Flex 2 integration § Updated Flash Remoting § New Flex Data Services adapter § New Flex Messaging gateway § Flex Builder 2 Cold. Fusion extensions § Updated reporting engine § Hot-fix and patch rollup 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 4

Cold. Fusion MX 8 (2007) § Next major update § New administrative functionality § § § Server monitoring § Analysis tools Adobe product integration § Flex § Live. Cycle § Breeze New developer functionality 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 5

Cold. Fusion + Flex Ben Forta Senior Technical Evangelist 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 6

Cold. Fusion As A Flex 1. x Back-End § Flex is used to build sophisticated application front-ends that run within the Flash player. § Flex is back-end agnostic: § § Flex relies on HTTP, SOAP, and AMF to talk to back-end systems. § Back-ends can therefore be just about anything, including Cold. Fusion had no specific Flex awareness: § Support for processing requests received via SOAP or AMF part of core Cold. Fusion. 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 7

Cold. Fusion & Flex 2 § Cold. Fusion and Flex 2 were designed to work with, and compliment, each other. § Cold. Fusion is very Flex aware, and Flex Builder 2 is very Cold. Fusion aware. 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 8

Flex 2 Pricing Flex Builder 2 costs$499 $699 $59 $899 $999 $79 9 § Flex 2 SDK is FREE! § § § Compiler and framework. Flex Data Services Express is FREE! § Single CPU, no clustering. 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 9

Flex 2 Deployment Model § § Flex 2 applications can be deployed in two ways: § As self-contained compiled SWFs that do not need a server component (although they will still be able to communicate with back-ends via SOAP and AMF). § As applications served via Flex Data Services server functionality (providing additional capabilities and functionality). Many Cold. Fusion developers will opt to just use Flex Builder 2. § Although many will indeed want to leverage Flex Data Services. § Basic FDS functionality will be made available for FREE! 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 10

Flex 2: Cold. Fusion Integration § Updated Flash Remoting. § § A new Flex Data Services adapter. § § All versions of CF. A new messaging gateway. § CF Enterprise only. 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 11

Flex Builder 2: Cold. Fusion Awareness § Automatic conversion between Cold. Fusion Component and Action. Script classes. § Data abstraction wizards. § RDS integration. § § File system. § Data sources. § SQL query builder. § Service browser. Full application generation. 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 12

Flex 2 Is Available … NOW 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 13

Cold. Fusion “Scorpio” Jason Delmore Cold. Fusion Product Manager 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 14

Introductions § Who is this Guy? And what is he doing here! § Spent the last 7+ years building applications in Cold. Fusion § Last position was Director of Engineering for Deploy Solutions, a leading provider of Hiring and Talent Management Software § A familiar story… § The company wanted to standardize on Java (JSP and POJO) § Convinced them that there were other choices… they agreed and started investigating which way to go § Unfortunately, the two choices they wanted to investigate were Java and. NET § Dave Gruber and Tim Buntel helped me argue that Cold. Fusion was a third possibility and ultimately they decided on a Cold. Fusion/Java Hybrid! § I have been at Adobe for 4 weeks my primary focus has been Scorpio § My new job is to play with all this really cool stuff before anyone else even knows about!!! 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 15

Cold. Fusion MX 8 § Next major update § New administrative functionality § § § Server monitoring § Analysis tools Adobe product integration § Flex § Live. Cycle § Breeze New developer functionality 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 16

Cold. Fusion MX 8 § What else? ? ? § What we’re ready to tell you. §§ § Okay…It’s focused on innovation! Well, Nothing notmore, much… sorry that’s would it. spoil the fun § Over 200 Engineering Weeks of Development Already! § Several features are ready for Alpha! Some additional hints at what we are doing § Support for more platforms! § Improved development tools for building your applications faster! § We are Adobe… look for us to leverage other Adobe technologies! 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 17

Cold. Fusion MX 8 - Demo § CFPDFForm § Populate PDF Forms directly from your Cold. Fusion application § Extract data from a PDF Form Document § Automate and streamline document based processes 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 18

Cold. Fusion MX 8 - Demo § CFPresentation § Build complex Presentations in real-time § Run reports and save them as a dashboard for viewing later! § Create training materials directly from your live application (no need to go and screen capture every page ever again!). 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 19

Cold. Fusion MX 8 § That was just a taste of what’s to come. § Want to learn more about Scorpio? ? ? § Well, you will just have to wait! § We are currently planning our next round of customer validation. § My job, is to be your advocate! § Please feel free to give me your thoughts and opinions on where Cold. Fusion should be heading! § And did I mention… I get to play with all this cool stuff before anyone even knows about it!! 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 20

Adobe Cold. Fusion ? Cold. Fusion Product Marketing Manager 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 21

Tim Buntel Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Cold. Fusion Adobe Systems, Inc. 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 22

Marketing? Me? 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 23

Really about the business § Strategy § Position § Sell § Evolve § Partner § Prepare, train, evangelize 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 24

And still… Features! 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 25

Beyond Features § Innovate § Part of the EDBU, that’s Enterprise § Advertising and outreach § Integrate with other products § Events… 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 26

MAX 2006 October 23 -26 The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas § More CF coverage than recent years § 120 sessions (80 or so typically), 20 CF specific! § Scorpio, Scorpio! 2005 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. 27

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