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Macromedia Announces Preview Release of ColdFusion

Posted on April 28, 2002

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Macromedia announced today that it would release a “preview release” of its next generation application server ColdFusion MX, formerly code named Neo. The preview release is intended to give the public a look at the product, and is not the same version beta testers are using. ColdFusion MX is expected to ship in June 2002.

ColdFusion MX was written in Java and runs on top of a J2EE server. Macromedia announced that the server would run on top of IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Sun ONE Application Server and Macromedia’s own J2EE server JRun.

ColdFusion MX is nearly 100% backwards compatible with ColdFusion 5 code, and also introduces several new features including tools for creating and invoking Web Services, a security overhaul, support for JSP custom tags within CFML pages, JSP, Servlets, XML Parser, Xpath, XSL, and perhaps the most intriguing new feature ColdFusion Components, or CFC’s. CFC’s allow a developer to easily encapsulate logic with a quasi object oriented approach. ColdFusion components can be deployed as Web Services with very little effort.

ColdFusion MX Press Release

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Don't forget the others.

Submitted by haidary on April 30, 2002 - 15:42.

It seems that you can now also download preview releases of Dreamweaver MX and Fireworks MX.

At first I wasn't sure if I liked the idea of getting rid of the version numbers for a couple of letters, but I'm beggining to grow on the idea. The fact that the whole new product line ends with "MX" gives them a better sence of unity when put side by side.

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invoking web services

Submitted by mwarden on May 11, 2002 - 10:58.

I saw a demonstration of how to invoke web services that use CFCs with CFMX at the CFNorth conference in Toronto. Let me say that I was less than impressed. I can say, however, that I'm looking forward to the increased ability to use Java/JSP with CFMX.

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Re: invoking Web Services

Submitted by pmccluskey on May 11, 2002 - 18:59.

Actually, I've been playing with CFMX for a while and I've found the mechanisms for creating a web service and for connecting to other web services to be dead easy: really simple and powerful.

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