The Adobe keynote speech was presented by platfrom evangelist Ben Forta and new CF evangelist Adam Lehman.

The two tag teamed the speech, with Ben presenting more of the introductory business information and Adam discussing some possible features in ColdFusion 9.

According to Ben CF has never been better. Sales are doing well and CF8 is the best selling version of all time.

He also announced the CF Open Process Initiative which is aimed at opening up the information pipeline on the development and design of CF. A CFML language advisory committee is being formed to define rules and guidelines around the use and evolution of CFML. It is lead by Sean Corfield but I wasn't writing fast enough to get all the other members. Only two of the members are Adobe employees. The other four come from the community itself.

Also, Adobe is now going to offer a full featured copy of CF to students and faculty for academic use. This will hopefully help get CF taught in more places and grow the developer community.

Adam took the stage and talked about the following features. He also gave the standard disclaimer that all some or none of these may end up in the final version of CF 9.

• create UDFs and CFCs in CFSCRIPT
• bring CFCs into CFSCRIPT
• an explicit local scope will let you declare local variables in a CFC that can be used anywhere within any function
• CFFINALLY and CFCONTINUE to be used within CFTRY/CFCATCH blocks
• implicit setters and getters
• a new Server.cfc file with onServerStart() and onServerEnd() methods
• Live Cycle Data Services 2.6 is on the way
• integrated Object Relational Mapping (ORM) powered by Hibernate

Ben summed up the sneak peek by saying if you want more information to sign up for MAX

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