We had to close registrations for the Preconference full day Security Workshop happening on October 9th. Hopefully you have already signed up if you wanted to join that hands-on lab.
We still have a few seats left in the API Workshop. As a reminder, below is the topic description. Please register today if you would like to attend, as this workshop will likely sell out soon as well.
Developing and Managing APIs with Adobe ColdFusion API Manager
This full day preconference lab will cover API development with a focus on REST based APIs. It will include an overview of Adobe ColdFusion API Manager and walk through configuration of the environment, and various features available to create and manage APIs.
Register today here: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/register/
This article announces the release of updatesColdFusion 2016, ColdFusion Builder 2016, ColdFusion 11 and ColdFusion 10.
These updates address a common vulnerability mentioned in security bulletin APSB 16-22
There are only a handful of seats available for our preconference workshops on API and Security topics, so we will be closing registration very soon due to capacity limitations. Please register today if you haven't yet!
As a reminder, these workshops are full day hands-on labs so it's a great learning opportunity for your teams. Below is a summary of the workshop descriptions:
Topic 1
Developing and Managing APIs with Adobe ColdFusion API Manager
This full day preconference lab will cover API development with a focus on REST based APIs. It will include an overview of Adobe ColdFusion API Manager and walk through configuration of the environment, and various features available to create and manage APIs.
Topic 2
Security
This full day hands-on training session will focus entirely on the topic of security as it relates to web developers, reviewing examples of how vulnerabilities are exploited and how to mitigate these vulnerabilities within your code.
Both of these full day preconference labs will have prerequisites and will require students to bring their own laptops for use. Further details on what will be covered and prerequisite information will be provided soon.
Register today here: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/register/
ColdFusion 2016 and ColdFusion Builder 2016 Update 2 early access builds are now available for your testing and feedback.
Note: The early access builds mentioned here have now been released in final form. So do not use the prerelease files or info below, but rather see the later blog post:
As discussed in previous blog there are 5 ways of creating APIs in ColdFusion API Manager. We have already seen How To Create Manual API In ColdFusion API Manager. Now we will import an API from Swagger. Swagger is a specification for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services. APIM supports Swagger 1.2 as well as 2.0. Read more here : Using ColdFsion APIM to import API from Swagger
ColdFusion API Manager helps you to create APIs that expose core functionalities of application and other backend systems. These APIs are then published and managed at runtime. We can create APIs in multiple ways : Creating API Manually Importing API from Swagger Importing API from ColdFusion REST services Converting a SOAP service into a REST service Import a SOAP API through a proxy service In the series of blogs to follow we will cover each flow. In this blog we […]
As you are probably aware, we are in the planning stage for the next version of ColdFusion. You may have already seen a blog post asking you to submit your wishlist for the next version. This post is about a survey that will give Adobe valuable information about your usage of ColdFusion. Please take a few minutes to take this survey and provide your feedback. The data from the survey will be used to validate a set of hypothesis about […]
As you are probably aware, with each version of ColdFusion, security is at the top of the priority list. With the latest release of ColdFusion, it is not just the security related features. Emphasis was laid on the inherent security of the ColdFusion platform by itself. To validate this, the PSIRT (Product Security Incident Response Team) at Adobe helped arrange a third party security audit for ColdFusion. The audit did come up with a few findings. Our Product engineers did […]
Remember that the $199 Super Early Bird Rate for ColdFusion Summit 2016 ends on May 31st so there are only a few days left to get that discount.
The preconference sessions are also filling up quickly, and have very limited capacity so if you were considering attending please sign up soon.
You can register here: https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/register/
Don’t forget that call for speakers ends tomorrow as well, so please submit any topic you would like to speak about by tomorrow here: http://cfsummit.speakerform.com
ColdFusion Summit 2016 will be held at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, NV on October 10th and 11th.
The preconference workshops on Security and API Development & Management will be on October 9th.
See you there!
Here is a way to let us know your wishlist for the future versions of ColdFusion. The process is really simple. 1. Log into the public bug tracker https://bugbase.adobe.com 2. Click on Add Bug. 3. Choose ColdFusion as the product and version as 2016. Remember, the version to be selected is 2016. 4. Select product area as wishlist and submit your list in the bug description. That’s it! We would love to hear your thoughts on what you would like […]
You may run into issues if you are using a non-administrator user account to install ColdFusion updates manually, or if an installation is attempted from the ColdFusion administrator console when ColdFusion service is running with a non-administrator account. In such cases, the update may not install successfully. and may complete with errors.
This update is a companion update to ColdFusion 2016 Update 1 and primarily addresses issues related to Security Code Analyzer and it’s performance. The issues fixed for this release are listed in this document. This update is applicable for a standalone as well as a plugin installation of ColdFusion Builder. After applying this update, ColdFusion Builder build number should be 298831. ColdFusion Builder has an automatic update notification that notifies the user of the updates availability.

