Editing Adobe ColdFusion (section)

=== Adobe ColdFusion 8 ===
On July 30, 2007, [[Adobe Systems]] released '''ColdFusion 8''', dropping "MX" from its name.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Adobe Ships ColdFusion 8
  | work = Adobe Systems Incorporated
  | date = 2007-07-30
  | url = https://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200707/073007ColdFusion.html
  | access-date = 2014-08-20
  | archive-date = 2015-10-26
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151026105451/http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200707/073007ColdFusion.html
  | url-status = live
  }}</ref> During beta testing the codename used was "Scorpio" (the eighth sign of the zodiac and the eighth iteration of ColdFusion as a commercial product). More than 14,000 developers worldwide were active in the beta process - many more testers than the 5,000 [[Adobe Systems]] originally expected. The ColdFusion development team consisted of developers based in Newton/Boston, Massachusetts and offshore in Bangalore, India.

Some of the new features are the CFPDFFORM tag, which enables integration with [[Adobe Acrobat]] forms, some image manipulation functions, [[Microsoft .NET]] integration, and the CFPRESENTATION tag, which allows the creation of dynamic presentations using [[Adobe Acrobat Connect]], the Web-based collaboration solution formerly known as [[Macromedia Breeze]]. In addition, the ColdFusion Administrator for the Enterprise version ships with built-in server monitoring. ColdFusion 8 is available on several [[operating systems]] including [[Linux]], Mac OS X and [[Windows Server 2003]].

Other additions to ColdFusion 8 are built-in [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]] widgets, file archive manipulation (CFZIP), [[Microsoft Exchange Server|Microsoft Exchange server]] integration (CFEXCHANGE), image manipulation including automatic [[CAPTCHA]] generation (CFIMAGE), multi-threading, per-application settings, [[Atom (standard)|Atom]] and [[RSS]] feeds, reporting enhancements, stronger encryption libraries, array and structure improvements, improved database interaction, extensive performance improvements, PDF manipulation and merging capabilities (CFPDF), interactive debugging, embedded database support with [[Apache Derby]], and a more [[ECMAScript]] compliant CFSCRIPT.

For development of ColdFusion applications, several tools are available: primarily [[Adobe Dreamweaver]] CS4, [[Macromedia HomeSite]] 5.x, CFEclipse, [[Eclipse (software)|Eclipse]] and others. "Tag updaters" are available for these applications to update their support for the new ColdFusion 8 features.