ColdFusion 9: Wishlist

During the CF8 Launch party last Wednesday in Australia (Thanks Barry B. for the invitation), Tim Buntel said that the CF team is already analyzing what could be in the next version of ColdFusion.

So here is my brief list of wishes for CF9:

- cfreport and cfdocument output in flashpaper should be upgraded to AS3 format, eventually add a new format value 'as3flashpaper' which would allow anyone to target previous version of flashpaper or the new one.
- unlock some of the DDX limitations.
- CFPresentation should allow to have a PPT as source allow to mix html slides and ppt generated ones.

Integration with LCDS:
- Better integration with LCDS. While integrated deployment was one of my biggest wishes (THANK YOU), there still some funcionality like support for creation of destinations when the server starts up or at runtime.
- Suport for defining CFCs as QoS controllers. This would allow to customize how often your messages would go to the connected clients.
- Support for custom paging. LCDS added this functionality but did make it to Scorpio. This is a big boost since it indicates from a paged collection, from which row it should return and how many records.
- Extend the AJAX plumbing to leverage the LCDS AJAX Data Services.
- Support for onConnectionStart/onConnectionEnd for Assemblers so we could listen when some client connects/disconnects in real-time.

Remoting:
- should be able to return an array of structs and be converted to an array of AS3 Classes like it does for LCDS data management destinations by using the ['__type__'] property.
- Should also allow to return a query as an ArrayCollection of typed objects like in LCDS (query-row-type attribute in the destination configuration).

other:

- CFFLV , this is nice one to have, convert from/to FLV, split, merge, add cue points, change metadata, extract audio/video channels and now that we will have DRM, eventually a way to set them too with this tag.
- Extend the struct / array creation to this

- Event gateways/scheduled tasks at the cluster level so your code just executes once and has high availability.
- synchronize all cluster instances configurations based on a instance model instead of deploying one by one with a car file.
- Allow to bind a ColdFusion instance to specific cpus/cores.
- CF Community License.
- AIR Server / Multiserver monitor !!!