What is ColdFusion?
ColdFusion is a set of Macromedia products that makes it easy to manage changes to website content,
add advanced functionality and serve pages to users. With ColdFusion, you can build a database using
input templates and combine these with application programs to create a Web site in which pages are
built dynamically as they are served. ColdFusion is also a popular tool for building e-commerce sites.
ColdFusion consists of ColdFusion Studio, used to build a site, and ColdFusion Server, which serves the
pages to users. ColdFusion has its own page markup language, called ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML).
CFML makes use of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Extensible Markup Language (XML). A just-in-time
(JIT) compiler turns the CFML code into the HTML pages that get served. ColdFusion Studio features include
support for ColdFusion tags and XHTML support.
In a ColdFusion environment, applications can access databases using Microsoft's OLE DB, Open Database
Connectivity (ODBC), or drivers that access Oracle and Sybase databases. ColdFusion can be coordinated to
interact with other distributed network applications that use Common Object Request Broker Architecture
(CORBA) or Microsoft's Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM).
Using ColdFusion MX, easily work with XML data using built-in document parsing, XSL transformations, and automated serialization of data into XML. Take custom tags to the next level by letting you write a component once and then access it from a ColdFusion page or Macromedia Flash client or as a web service. ColdFusion MX combines the power of the Java platform with the ease of use of ColdFusion. Develop and deploy ColdFusion applications with the standalone ColdFusion MX Server or deploy on leading J2EE application servers with the ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers product line.
Pass data from ColdFusion MX Server to Macromedia Flash clients with full support for ColdFusion debugging in the Macromedia Flash MX authoring environment. Powerful New Debugging Capabilities are available from inside the Macromedia Dreamweaver MX IDE. Easily Migrate Existing Applications to the ColdFusion MX Foundation with the Code Compatibility Analyzer.
ColdFusion MX allows you to import JSP tag libraries and use JSP tags just like ColdFusion custom tags or integrate CFML pages with Java servlets.
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ColdFusion Training Courses
The following ColdFusion training courses are available from Blue Star Learning...
CFMX1 - ColdFusion MX Core Concepts
CFMX2 - ColdFusion MX Advanced Topics