Adobe ColdFusion 9 now available

LOS ANGELES, US: At Adobe MAX, Adobe’s worldwide developer conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated, today announced the immediate availability of Adobe ColdFusion 9, Adobe ColdFusion Builder Beta 2, and a private beta of the new ColdFusion 9 in the Cloud that will run in the Amazon Web Services environment and enable more developers to access the power of ColdFusion as a hosted service.

New features include an Adobe AIR application for managing multiple ColdFusion servers from one location, saving performance time and reducing redundant tasks, said a press release.

ColdFusion 9 also offers local and remote database synchronization with Adobe AIR, giving users access to applications regardless of Internet connectivity. Also, deep integration with Hibernate’s object relational mapping (ORM) provides developers with database independent applications.

“The ColdFusion 9 beta program was very successful and feedback on the new Eclipse-based IDE and its tight integration with the Adobe Flash Platform was overwhelmingly positive,” said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe.

He added that today with the new cloud-based offering, developers and IT professionals can choose the best and most cost-effective method for their company when deploying rich Internet applications.

ColdFusion works seamlessly with the Adobe Flash Platform.

As a result, developers and IT professionals have more tools for creating rich user interfaces for their enterprise applications, all while integrating across their existing technologies, said the release.

Adobe is helping their customers move to the Cloud with ColdFusion in two ways.

New instance-based licensing with ColdFusion 9 enablers developers to install ColdFusion 9 on virtual instances in the cloud environment of their choice to prototype, develop, test and host ColdFusion applications.

Secondly, an Amazon Machine Image of ColdFusion 9 is now available as a private beta, which uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service technologies to provide highly scalable, highly reliable, on-demand technology resources.

ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 is the next build of the new Eclipse based ColdFusion integrated development environment (IDE) used for rapidly developing ColdFusion applications. 

It delivers an enhanced feature set and development environment. Also, because ColdFusion Builder and Adobe Flash Builder are Eclipse-based, there is deep feature integration and enhanced workflow to generate client and server code.

Developers can easily create rich interfaces and applications with ColdFusion server-side logic, added the release.