I would love to be able to use the Query-of-Queries to query any collection (List, Array, File, ...). A new feature in .NET 3.5 is LINQ that allows SQL like querying of most any collection. Or maybe similar to how LogParser works which lets you use SQL like querying on files.

To include Spry as the AJAX built in

That actually makes a lot of sense. One of the items on my list was tighter Flex integration but I was not sure about the right questions to ask. Thanks!

1. support for nulls

2. ability to instantiation cfcs from in-memory variables (iow, don't make me write to disk only to turn around and do create object from that concrete file)

3. built-in ORM capabilities, preferably Hibernate under the hood

4. flatten="true' attribute on cfpdfform when action="populate" and using the destination attribute

5. low on the list, but total cfscript support so I could, if I wanted to, write entirely in cfscript (I go back and forth on this but having the option would be nice)

6. support for creating a jar-like construct with cfcs

I'll stop there for now. ;-)

@Matt - Great suggestions! I really like the idea of jar-like constructs for cfcs..Thanks!

Now that we're all using cfqueryparam in every query, it would be nice if the cfsqltype attribute didn't require the "cf_sql_" at the beginning of every value and save our fingers some typing.

Supporting multiple-page Tiff from cfimage

That last comment reminded me of 2 more ideas:

CFPodCast -- a CF tag that will dynamically make a Flex SWF streaming MP3 "widget" on the client. Not a Flex widget -- I want to be able to customize it on the server (preload it with specific MP3s, change the colors, security settings, whatever) *before* it hits the client.

...and in regards to the cfvideo tag mentioned above, I'd love a "video" version of the cfPodCast tag I just described. Can we build a dynamic flex based streaming video "UI widget"? and have it start as CF code so various options can be controlled by the server first? (i.e. pre-load it with specific videos, etc).

thanks.

1. File upload progress control (with multi-file support)

2. charts..add funnel & pyramid types

3. More control over "automagically" inserted cf code, i.e for cfform, bundle js in tidy externals.

4. Built in support for dealing with undeliverable mail in the domino administrator.

5. Alerts for specific log events, generate an email /sms etc..

6. quicker support for latest version of os x.

7. support for full search friendly / simple URL's. e.g
/page.cfm?id=1 becomes /page/id/1

8. built in unit testing

9. Adobe to show more support for Open Source community developed projects

10. kill or upgrade the exchange area of the adobe website its not very useful.

11. add ability to send email via MS exchange tags (it will only become truly useful when this happens)

Off the top of my head:
1) Allow us to specify case insensitivity with query of queries
2) Full support for inline structures
3) namespacing like cfimport prefixing at the application / server level so we could define cf tag libraries similar to java
4) Better return format support on cfc method calls (IE: automatically convert my results to whatever format the client requests and allow xml as one) This is a great feature that just needs to be filled out better.
5) Viewable examples in the CF documentation
6) Update support for tags like cfmail so they can handle secure connections
7) Give us user management for cfadmin in standard
8) E4X type xml support (makes dealing with XML a breeze)

I'd like them to extend the shorthand array/struct creation to allow nesting, so you could do:

<cfset config = [
   { first:'John', last:'Doe' },
   { first:'Paul', last:'White' }
] />

Oh, awesome, hadn't seen that!

Mail queue throttle control. For example, if my app dumps 10,000 messages into the mail spool, it'd be great to have a setting - either in the server or in the cfmail tag - that told the server how many to pass off at X intervals to the smtp servers - i.e., send a max of 50 messages every 30 seconds until the spool is empty.

Even better would be the ability to re-order the queue so that only xx number of messages to a certain domain (aka yahoo.com) per spool parsing would be sent.

@David Ryan: FWIW, flash forms are no longer 'stripped down' in CF 8. All keyword restrictions, etc have been removed. It should be said though (and anyone, feel free to correct me because I'm probably a bit off on this), that flash forms were built on Flex 1.5(?) which was a *server* product that compiled the SWF on the server. Flex >2 compiles the SWF locally which is then deployed to the server. So we're talking about 2 totally different things here. So it's really not that easy to just 'upgrade' flash forms to a higher version of Flex. I'm curious though, as to why so many people want CF/Flex solutions. MXML is really not all that difficult to use/learn. What is the motivation for some of you? Cost? Dynamic code? Just curious...

a short list:
- nested transactions (by name)
- handling empty elements in list functions (turn on/off)
- new CFARGUMENT attributes: CALLBY="reference|value", list="Yes|No" and "max, min, pattern" from CFPARAM
- CFCSV, CFGPS, CFCRAWLER, CFDOC, CFXLS, CFSKYPE/CFMESSENGER, CFCLUSTER, CFSOUND/CFCHAT/CFVOIP/CFTALK, CFVIDEO/CFTV, CFJSR170, CFAMF
- compare(arg1, arg2) for structs, arrays and even queries results in: 0=equal, 1=not equal, -1=arg2 extends arg1, having more keys/rows
- replace(string, sub, sub2 [, scope [, start [, end] ] ]) == scope:   LAST / REST; start:   default value is 1; end:   -1 = len(string)
- find(sub, string [, start [, end [, scope] ] ] == start:   default value is 1; end:   -1 = len(string); scope:   FIRST / LAST
- cluster features: clear memory caches for all, cfsharefile so file is in short time available on all servers
- A function to get current settings of certain tags; rule: if you can set something there must be a function to get information about it; examples: cfschedule jobs, cftransaction isolation level, CFSETTING enablecfoutputonly/showdebugoutput, CFERROR template...
- see below: useTag(), execTag()
- see below: tag defaults

especially I second the mentioned:
- Query-of-Queries to query any collection
- Named arguments in scoped functions, so I can make use of the super scope in cfc


== useTag(), execTag() ==

useTag(tag="cfqueryparam", innerCode="", attributecollection="#structX#", text="")
tt = useTag(tag='cfquery', attributecollection={name="qData", datasource=dsn},
   innerCode = 'SELECT fieldlist
               FROM tablename
               WHERE columnanme LIKE #useTag(tag="cfqueryparam", attributecollection={value=searchstr, cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR"} )#
            ');
execTag(tt);

This would make anything usable in CFSCRIPT and in EVALUATE()
and there is no need to make functions out of any tag in CF9.

useTag(tag="cfloop", attributecollection={from="1", to="10", index="iii"} innerCode=useTag(tag="cfset", text="t = iii") )



== tag defaults ==

Setting default attributes for tags (usually placed in 'Application.cfc') so you don't have to write always all attributes again and again.
<cftagdefault tag="cffile" action="READ">
   <cfsettagdefault name="charset" value="iso-8859-1">
</cfdefault>

<cftagdefault tag="cffile" action="WRITE">
   <cfsettagdefault name="mode" value="644">
</cfdefault>

<cftagdefault tag="cfquery">
   <cfsettagdefault name="datasource" value="mydb">
</cfdefault>

<cftagdefault tag="cfhttp">
   <cfsettagdefault name="proxyserver" value="127.0.0.1">
   <cfsettagdefault name="proxyPort" value="9999">
</cfdefault>

example:
<cffile action="READ" usedefaults="yes" ...>

I would see a new tag <cfssh user="" pass="" server="">some linux / unix commands to run</cfssh>. At the moment i have to use ssh = createObject("java","com.trilead.ssh2.Connection").init("localhost"); to do this job.