An Architect's View

Adobe's five sessions are (finally) on the website and on the schedule. Adobe is providing five deep dive sessions by five speakers (as well as their opening keynote):

• Deploying into Large Scale ColdFusion Environments - Michael Collins
• Integrating ColdFusion with .NET - Josh Adams
• Building Hybrid Applications with ColdFusion and Java - Jason Delmore
• Adding Live Chat with ColdFusion and BlazeDS - Adam Lehman
• Document Driven Applications with PDF - Sanjeev Kumar

Read the session descriptions for more details (all linked above - updated descriptions will be available for Jason's and Sanjeev's talks within the next day or two). I'm particularly excited to have Michael's talk on the schedule since this covers a number of very important topics for enterprise ColdFusion shops - including a lot of new material, not seen anywhere before! Josh's talk is an excellent complement to John Bland's session on .NET integration. John will cover the mechanics of the architecture and how to build .NET assemblies you can call from ColdFusion. Josh will cover specific uses of the feature to leverage Microsoft's Sharepoint and Office technology. Likewise, Jason's talk is an excellent complement to Andrew Powell's session on ColdFusion and Java. Jason will cover ColdFusion and Java integration with pros and cons and Andrew will dive into building your entire business model in Java and using that with ColdFusion for presentation. Adam's talk brings coverage of Adobe's newly released open source remoting system, BlazeDS, showing how it can be used to create interactive applications with ColdFusion and Sanjeev's talk goes deep into the Adobe PDF integration that ColdFusion 8 brought to the table, including architecture level information.