subject: Features Of Coldfusion 9 [print this page] ORM support ORM support
Flex and AIR integration
Language enhancements
Integration with other products and technologies
Performance enhancements
Database enhancements
Code Analyzer
Service features
Other enhancements
ORM support
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.
Flex and AIR integration
Adobe AIR applications
Offline capabilities : Offline application support for AIR applications includes data persistence and synchronization. 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
ActionScript proxies For AIR/Flex clients to access ColdFusion services. The MXML tags can map to ColdFusion tags on the server.
Enhanced Flash Remoting:Flash Remoting has been re-engineered in ColdFusion 9 to allow high performance and faster remoting. The following are the feature highlights
Integration with BlazeDS
Support for circular reference
Language enhancements
Apart from new cfsrcipt features and onServerStart, this release has the following language enhancements:
Nested cftransaction
UDF name conflict resolution for CFCs
Local scope
Var scope support anywhere in functions
Implicit getters and setters for cfproperty in CFCs
Integration with other products and technologies
ColdFusion 9 Support for Integration with SharePoint
Microsoft applies the SharePoint brand name to a host of products and technologies collectively called SharePoint Products and Technologies. ColdFusion 9 supports integration with the following SharePoint Products and Technologies products:
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0
Microsoft Widows SharePoint Services 3.0
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Performance enhancements
Overall server performance in ColdFusion 9 is up to 40% faster than in ColdFusion 8 and up to 6 times faster than ColdFusion MX 7.
Database enhancements
This release supports DataDirect driver version 4.0 SP 1. The feature helps to enhance database operations by providing the following features:
Support for MySQL (Enterprise and Commercial editions), Oracle11g, DB2v9.5, Informix 11, and SQL Server 2008
