ColdFusion Main > ColdFusion Articles > Future Coldfusion: Blackstone Future Coldfusion: BlackstoneThe next version of ColdFusion is code-named "Blackstone". Blackstone has new features for using Flash to produce very sophisticated, very user-friendly forms with advanced features such as tabs and accordions. It adds excellent support for producing PDF files from native ColdFusion code, and it introduces a new, very powerful report writer. And of course, it does all this with the trademark ease of programming for which we've come to depend on ColdFusion. It will, in short, make you a coding hero. This makes ColdFusion the best presentation language available and this is important - very important - because to the users, the user interface is the the application. It has been puzzling for some time, the question of where ColdFusion fits in the enterprise space increasingly dominated by the J2EE and .NET platforms, and with Blackstone presentation we can see how perfect a marriage ColdFusion is with Java. Java is the proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the enterprise computing space. It runs on virtually every processor (given its "write once; run anywhere" ability) and is used for everything from running Mars rovers to cellphones to gas station pumps. But Java is primarily a server-side language, which is where it excels. Adoption of Java applets on the other hand, has slowed to a crawl. ColdFusion - particularly the Blackstone version - excels at providing the presentation layer, but is much weaker than Java on the server side, where it lacks such Java features as constructors, interfaces, abstract classes, overloading, and a null object - all undergirded by Java's strong data typing that virtually eliminates runtime exceptions. But now ColdFusion and Java can work beautifully together with Blackstone To Outsource Coldfusion e commerce, ColdFusion programming, ColdFusion CMS or any other kind of ColdFusion software, please contact us. We can make available Coldfusion Programmer or a team of Coldfusion Programmers and web debelopers for ColdFusion development and support. For more details please visit our ColdFusion Services section. Click here for more ColdFusion articles. 
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