With the announcement of ColdFusion MX 7 in February, we introduced event
gateways that turn the ColdFusion web application server into a bona fide
Internet application server. The gateways are a great new feature for
developers. You can now build applications for a variety of protocols and
devices, not just HTTP. Because it's ColdFusion, we made it easy to develop
and deploy outside the browser, and you can let your imagination run wild.
But why, you may ask, didn't we have these to begin with? Ten years ago, when
ColdFusion was first introduced, the Internet consisted of only a ... (more)
When the ColdFusion engineering team started planning ColdFusion MX 7, we
finally had time to give the cfform tags some love. We talked to and heard
from many customers and knew that we needed to do a cfform tag overhaul for
HTML-based forms. We also knew that that if it was possible, we wanted to
help ColdFusion developers harness the richness of Macromedia Flash Player
and open up the ... (more)