Summary:

Internet Information Server (IIS) 7.0 is the newest release of Microsoft?s web server for Windows. Currently shipping with Windows Vista, IIS 7.0 is also part of Windows Server 2008, scheduled for release in February 2008. This talk will present an overview of the major new features of IIS 7.0, including: customizable installation, simplified configuration and administration, security enhancements, integrated request pipeline, extensibility enhancements, and much more. The impact and benefits of the new IIS 7.0 features for developers using Adobe ColdFusion or New Atlanta BlueDragon will be explored.

Summary:

Many by now know that both ColdFusion MX and BlueDragon permit you to deploy CFML on a J2EE server. This is important for shops moving to standards-based architectures, for whom running ColdFusion servers is no longer acceptable. But what if your shop (or a client) is moving to .NET? Macromedia's only current solution is web services integration, but w/BlueDragon/.NET it's possible to run the CFML on the .NET framework. It's still just CFML, redeployed. The opportunities for integration with native .NET component (ASP.NET and more) are tremendous.

In this talk, veteran CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart, CTO of New Atlanta (makers of BlueDragon) will explain the environment motivating this need, as well as the enterprise integration possibilities it enables (calling ASP.NET from CFML and vice-versa, sharing data, leveraging .NET features, and more). Even if you don't see a need to support .NET, you likely will. For folks with large investments in CFML and CFML developers, it's a unique solution that helps keep CFML alive and thriving. It might even win over projects otherwise slated for ASP.NET!

Summary:

BlueDragon is an alternative CFML runtime engine that can solve important deployment problems for CFML shops looking to preserve their investment in CFML while also considering strategic platforms like .NET and J2EE .

There are numerous other compelling reasons to consider BlueDragon - including for redistributing your CFML applications for sale as a standalone turnkey solution.

If you don't know BlueDragon is, or why you'd want to use it, or how it fits with your current CFML programming, this presentation will be build a solid foundation for expanding the possibilities and potential of your existing CFML assets and skills.

Summary:

We all know that CFML makes web services creation and consumption easy. Still, there tips and tricks that can solve common problems in working with them, or expose new possibilities you may not have considered. In this presentation, veteran CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart will share some useful (and some little used) features of ColdFusion MX, BlueDragon, and Dreamweaver to help you make the most of web services. He'll also show several ways to test and then call web services, as well as point out some interesting and useful examples of real web services you can use in business today.

Summary:

It's now possible to deploy CFML applications on a J2EE server. It's still CFML, but it can leverage many benefits both for developers, server administrators, and line of business managers. In this talk, Charlie will introduce and demonstrate the notion of deploying CFML on J2EE servers. The focus is mostly on the benefits of deployment, even for CFML developers with no knowledge of, or interest in, pure J2EE development and integration.

Summary:

You may have been using CFML for years but still suffer from various problems with session management. Do you know that the latest releases of CFMX and BlueDragon offer great solutions to these long-vexing problems? For instance, did you know you can now (finally) have sessions terminate when the browser is closed? Did you know you could more easily handle sessions for browsers that don't support or allow cookies?

And if you're running CFML on a J2EE server, did you know you may be able to cause sessions to be persistent so that they remain available after a server restart, and you can cause them to be replicated across servers in a cluster so that the session remains active when failover forces a user to a new server?

All these and more can work on both CFMX and BlueDragon, and Charlie will show you how, with examples, live demos, pointers to resources, and bonus tips. Every CFML developer is sure to come away with some new knowledge.

Summary:

In this session, veteran CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart will share some tips and likely a few surprises as he demonstrates the many forms of includes available in CFML. More than just a boring introduction for newcomers to CFML, he'll show how long-held beliefs about CFINCLUDE are just wrong, and how new features in CFMX and BlueDragon open new doors of possibility for code reuse by way of includes. Finally, he'll show that an include is NOT about "pulling code" into your program. You may be shocked to learn what else you can "include" into your CFML program.

Summary:

CFML has to be one of the easiest languages with which to create and consume Web Services.

Both BlueDragon and CFMX allow you to easily extend CFC methods to publish them as web services -- and it's just as easy to consume them as well. And while you don't need to understand XML to work with them, it can sometimes be useful.

In this introduction to the topic, veteran CFUG speaker Charlie Arehart will show how easy it is, explain what you need to know about CFCs, Web Services, and XML, as well as discuss important issues like security and exception handling.

More and more vendors, organizations, and developers are taking advantage of Web Services. Don't be left behind!

Summary:

In this talk, veteran CFML developer and CFDJ columnist Charlie Arehart will show how to set up your web server in such a way as to allow code in a single directory to be executed against multiple CFML servers at once.

By default ColdFusion won't configure a single web server to integrate with both CF5 and CFMX at the same time -- it's an either/or proposition. That forces you to either use multiple web servers (such as IIS for CF5 and Apache for CFMX), or use the built-in web server in CFMX (and then have to move code into the cfusionmx\wwwroot for MX testing).

But Charlie will show how you can manually configure a web server (such as IIS) to let you run a set of CFML in a single directory against either version of CF (or BlueDragon, for that matter). This greatly simplifies testing against multiple versions of CF.

Summary:

• Are you a longtime CF Studio fan?
• Do you lament that it's no longer sold?
• Do you know about HomeSite+?

CF Studio and Homesite+ are essentially the same thing, and you may not know that it's offered free on the Dreamweaver MX CD. It's even been updated since it's release. In this talk, veteran CFUG presenter Charlie Arehart will introduce HomeSite+ to current CF Studio users.

It's not a walk through of features you knew from CF Studio, but instead a discussion of matters relevant to current CF Studio (or even Dreamweaver MX) users: what it is, how to get it, how to update it, how to extend its help for CFMX, and more.

Summary:

Most CFML developers love CF Studio (or its latest incarnation, HomeSite+). When you're editing code, do you have it set up to browse the code with a single keystroke? Or do you open a browser window and type in the URL? Sure, you can create a browser bookmark, but if you edit lots of code, it's a lot easier to have one-button browsing either internal to, or external to, Studio/HomeSite+. In this talk, veteran CFML developer and CFDJ columnist Charlie Arehart will show how to use this often missed but very important feature. It doesn't require RDS, and it works with CF5, CFMX, and even BlueDragon.

Summary:

This presentation demonstrates how to use BlueDragon to deploy CFML pages onto any standard J2EE application server. This topic consists of a short presentation followed by multiple demonstrations.
Outline:

• Motivation: why CFML on J2EE?
• What is a J2EE web application?
• BlueDragon architecture
• Demonstration
  • the world's simplest J2EE webapp
  • creating a J2EE webapp that supports CFML
  • deploying a J2EE webapp with CFML on Apache Tomcat
  • configuring CFML datasources
  • creating a Web Archive (WAR) file
  • deploying a WAR file onto BEA WebLogic

Summary:

This presentation describes the ways in which BlueDragon and ColdFusion MX allow CFML and JSP to be combined and integrated into single web applications. The audience is assumed to be knowledgeable about CFML, and have some familiarity with JSP.
Outline:

• What is a web application?
• CFML and J2EE web applications compared
  • reusable components
  • data sharing among components
  • common error handling
• Integrating JSP pages into CFML applications
• Integrating CFML into J2EE web applications

Summary:

The Microsoft .NET Framework is the new component model for building and running the next generation of Windows applications. ASP.NET is the set of technologies in the Microsoft .NET Framework for building Web applications and XML Web Services.

This session will review the structure, components, and configuration files that make up an ASP.NET web application. You will then see how to use BlueDragon to integrate CFML pages as native components of ASP.NET web applications, including the ability to share Request, Session, and Application variables among CFML pages and ASP.NET pages coded using Visual Basic .NET and C#.

Summary:

This presentation introduces JSP to CFML developers by comparing and contrasting JSP with CFML. It assumes the audience is familiar with CFML, but assumes no prior experience with JSP. This talk is very basic and is not for experienced JSP developers.
Outline:

• JSP Basics
• Creating and displaying variables
• Flow control: conditional logic, looping
• Implicit objects: request, response, session, pageContext, out
• Includes and Forwards
• SQL query examples
• JSP tag libraries