Its official! The highly anticipated release of the next version of the world renown ColdFusion web application development platform has been released, ColdFusion 8. Some of the new features include:
- Performance increases
- Server Monitor
- PDF features
- Ajax features
- .NET integration
- Microsoft Exchange Server integration
- Interactive debugger
- Adobe Flex integration
- Per-application settings
- Multi-threading
- Image manipulation
- Presentations on demand
- Atom and RSS feeds
- ZIP and JAR file features
- User-based Administrator and RDS access
- Improved file manipulation functions
- JavaScript operators in CFML
- CFC improvements
- Strong encryption libraries
- Reporting enhancements
- Database interaction improvements
- Argument collections
- Array and structure creation improvements
- Expanded platform, OS, and database support
So, go ahead and get started with ColdFusion 8 and download it.
If you use Eclipse to develop your ColdFusion applications, you can download the ColdFusion 8 extensions for Eclipse, as well as the ColdFusion Help Files for Eclipse. Alternatively, if you use Adobe’s Dreamweaver as your development environment you can download the ColdFusion 8 update for Dreamweaver.

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