For the most part, I try to avoid XML. I almost always go towards using JSON – both as a consumer and a producer. That being said, probably the only thing I find cool about XML is XPath and XSLT. I haven’t used XSLT much, but XPath can be a real useful tool. It allows you to perform queries against XML data (something you can’t do with JSON as far as I know). In ColdFusion Zeus, we’ve upgraded both XSLT and Xpath to...

Hey, it’s the holidays, so why not share one more quick ColdFusion Zeus update? This is another little feature that literally became available two days ago. If you’ve ever needed to dynamically invoke a CFC method, you know that’s simply enough using cfinvoke. So for example: <cfset s = new some()><cfset dynmeth = "test"><cfinvoke component="#s#" method="#dynmeth#"...

One of the new language additions to ColdFusion Zeus is the ability to get the current callstack. If that sounds Greek to you, it’s simply the ability for a function to know who call it, who called that guy, and so on. It sounds confusing, but a few quick examples will help. In our first example, I’ve got a call to a UDF that calls another UDF. That UDF runs one of the two new functions introduced in this blog post,...

An important security hot-fix is released today for ColdFusion 9.0.1 and earlier. Here is the link to the security bulletin. This hot-fix addresses Cross site scripting (XSS) issues for cfform tag and RDS.

Adobe evangelist Terry Ryan has already spoken about it in his blog and recently Josh Adams from our sales team wrote a blog post entry to state that ColdFusion is still in development and staying the course. I want to iterate that there is no change in plan for next version of ColdFusion codenamed Zeus and we continue to go aggressively trying to make Zeus a kick ass release. I & Rupesh recently presented a session at MAX where we demo...

ColdFusion 9.0.1 installed with Cumulative hotfix 2 supports Mac OSX Lion (10.7.x). Check http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/918/cpsid_91836.html for more details. We are currently investigating our support for Lion server.