Transcript Macromedia DevCon 2001

Macromedia DevCon 2002
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Keynote Highlights
Performance Tuning tidbits
Web Services tidbits
New Technology showcased
Keynote Highlights
• Emphasizing the "experience economy"
(ala Starbucks)
• Extract Commodities -> Make Goods -> Deliver
Services -> Stage Experiences
• Flash showcase:
• Remoting (CF MX + Flash)
• Communication Server (streaming video)
• Household devices
• Mobile (Sony Clie - Palm V OS)
Performance Tuning tidbits
• CF MX with Updater 1 -> up to 60%
faster than CF 5
• Some CFML functions/tags up to 10x
faster (avg 2-3x faster)
• A few tags are somewhat slower. ("The obscure
ones")
• Use CFC's
• Custom tags rewritten as CFC's are up to 30%
faster
Performance Tuning (cont’d)
• Use CFINVOKE to call web services, not
CFOBJECT
• User CFQUERYPARAM in CFQUERY tags
to leverage BIND parameters
• COM = Evil.
Web Services
• Apache Axis is the 3rd party tool CFMX
uses to interpret WDSL
• Ships with beta version, Axis recently went gold
• Updater 3 will allow you to update/run your
own interpreter
• CFINVOKE does not provide proxy
server or proxy port attributes
Web Services (cont’d)
• Web Services are still in their infancy,
some standards still being set
– Complex objects, like arrays and structures
can get hinky.
• Avoid query objects if you need to be
platform independent
– Consider sending an XML string instead.
New Technology
• </hassle> aka Contribute
• $99 desktop product for non-techies to update
content
• Won't break your code
• Has offline mode, previews, approvals, some
security, etc.
• http://www.macromedia.com/go/contribute/
New Technology (cont’d)
• Flash Communications Server
• Streaming video, White boarding, Chat
• "Shared" Flash SWF's
• 1.0 product (but they're working on a new rev)
Next Year
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DevCon 2003
San Diego, CA
Sept 7th-10th, 2003
www.macromedia.com/go/devcon2003/