This is the first release of the ColdFusion product since Adobe acquired Macromedia over two years ago. The previous version, ColdFusion MX 7, was getting long in the tooth.
"Developer anticipation for ColdFusion 8 has been at an all time high since MAX 2006," said David Mendels, senior vice president of Enterprise and Developer Solutions at Adobe. "This is the first release of ColdFusion under the Adobe brand, and now developers can seamlessly integrate their ColdFusion applications with other Adobe technologies such as Flex, Apollo, LiveCycle and even PDF to further the evolution of engagement over the Web."
According to Adobe, ColdFusion 8 includes support for integration with .NET assemblies, and support for Vista and new J2EE servers including JBoss.