What's New in BlueDragon 7?

September 28, 2006 by Pete Freitag

New Atlanta, just released Beta 1 of version 7 of their BlueDragon CFML application server.

Below is a list of the new features - I think the IsNull function and null keyword will prove to be quite handy.

• Multi-threaded programming (CFTHREAD, and related tags and functions)
• Interfaces and Abstract CFCs
• null keyword and IsNull() function
• CFQUERY Enhancements
  • CACHEDUNTILCHANGE attribute
  • BACKGROUND attribute
• Application.cfc
  • onClientStart() handler
  • onMissingTemplate() handler
• CFDOCUMENT
• CFCHART
• CFSEARCH Enhancements
  • support for Word and PDF documents
  • support for multiple languages
• UDF Forward References in CFML pages
• CFREGISTRY support for Windows registry
• ASP.NET Partial Trust Mode (BD.NET)
• support for MySQL 5.0, including stored procedures
• support for 64-bit Windows and Linux
• miscellaneous CFMX 7 compatible enhancements
• performance enhancements
• bug fixes