ColdFusion MX 7

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ColdFusion MX 7

• By David Fekke
• 3/21/2005

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History

• Allaire created ColdFusion in mid 90s
• Procedural way to create dynamic web pages
• Allaire purchased JRun
• Macromedia purchased Allaire 2001
• Macromedia released CFMX
• Supported WebSphere, Weblogic, JRun, Sun

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CFMX

• New features included Flash remoting, Web
  Services
• CFCs allow basic OO coding
• Improved Java support

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ColdFusion MX 7

• Over 20 new features
• Flash Forms using cfform
• Event Gateways, SMS, JMS, IM, Sockets
• New reporting capabilities
• Cfdocument creates PDFs and FlashPaper
• Asynchronous support
• AXIS support for SOAP Headers

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Event Gateways

• Allows execution of CFML code other than web
  pages
• Built-in Gateway Types include SMS and IM, and
  JMS
• Only available in Enterprise

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Definition

• Event Gateways provide a gateway to allow java
  and server events to pass through to ColdFusion
  MX code.

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Event Gateway Model
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Event Gateway Terms

• Event
• Message
• Event Gateway
• Gateway Type
• Event Gateway Instance

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Terms continued

• Event Gateway Application
• Listener CFC
• ColdFusion MX gateway service

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Gateway Types

• SAMETIME and XMPP IM
• JMS Java messaging
• SMS Mobile phone messaging
• Telnet Socket
• Asynchronous CFML
• DirectoryWatcher

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Custom Gateways

• Event Gateways are extensible
• Create new types in Java
• Stand alone cf_root/gateway/src/examples/
• J2EE cf_root/WEB-INF/cfusion/gateway/src/example
  s/

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Event Function

• SendGatewayMessage() 2 params
• 1 Name of Gateway instance
• 2 Event structure

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CFEvent structure

• msg structNew()
• msg.command "submit"
• msg.destAddress "5551234"
• msg.shortMessage SMSMessage

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Listener CFC

• Incoming events require CFC
• Default methods depend on the configuration file
  and gateway type

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Asynchronous Events

• Multiple threads allowed
• Speeds large operations that do not require a
  result returned

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Menu Framework

• Menu and menunode CFCs
• Use for simple interface
• Works with SMS, IM, and socket
• webroot\cfide\componentutils\gatewaymenu\

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Useful links

• http//www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/art
  icles/gateway_print.html
• http//livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldo
  cs/00001729.htm