I have read about it before and InfoWorld’s article Macromedia to boost reporting, clients in ColdFusion tool also mentions it. But you will find in a reposting from a newsletter that I get from SD Times much more detail about this new “event gateway”. I’m excited about ti and I think that you will be too.
edit: You can now find the article online.
ColdFusion to Go Beyond Web Pages
When released in early 2005, the next edition of Macromedia Inc.’s ColdFusion Web application server will include an extensible gateway architecture that will enable developers to use events like instant messaging and SMS to trigger actions, the company told SD Times as the product entered a second phase of alpha testing in late July.
“As a ColdFusion developer, you can now build applications for a limitless number of potential Internet clients, not just Web browsers,” said ColdFusion product manager Tim Buntel.
“ColdFusion could watch a directory in a filesystem and do something if a file is created or deleted there,” he said, such as add a record to a database, send an e-mail or run some other code. Developers also will be able to build their own gateways. “For example, if you wanted to create a socket gateway, ColdFusion could listen on a TCP/IP port and take some action.”
Code-named Blackstone, the successor to ColdFusion MX 6.1 also will permit the use of Flash to create, manage and present data-entry forms, something that is difficult today using Flash and ColdFusion as two separate products.
Blackstone also will simplify packaging existing content for viewing and printing, Buntel claimed. “You don’t have to create two versions- an HTML version and a PDF version. You can just wrap tags around existing content and create printable PDF or FlashPaper documents with control over pagination, headers and footers.”
Buntel claimed that Blackstone developers will have an easier time taking advantage of J2EE’s ability to launch multiple instances to improve reliability. “With previous versions, if anything went wrong with an application, it would bring down all of the apps. With multiple instances, apps are completely isolated; you get the benefit of multiple physical servers without the added expense and management costs of multiple machines.”
-Edward J. Correia
You might be thinking “How could you so this?! Your posting something that you did not write?!”. Well nobody comes to my site but for a few but I wanted to talk about this article and SD times did not post it on there site. yes they make money from it but I suspect that it will never even go into print for them either. I did not want to to disappear so I post it here. So if an SD Times person actually get to this site contact me and I take this posting down. but until then “c’est la vie”
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