ColdFusion Development

Adobe ColdFusion software solves the day-to-day challenges of Internet application development, allowing you to be extremely productive as you create and deliver engaging online applications. And because it fits into any IT environment, you can use ColdFusion 8 for everything from small departmental applications to highly scalable, reliable implementations of your most important business applications. ColdFusion is a commercial, rapid application development platform.

One of the distinguishing features of ColdFusion is its associated scripting language, ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), which compares to the scripting components of ASP, JSP, and PHP in purpose and features, but more closely resembles HTML in syntax. ColdFusion works on most platforms like Windows, Linux, Unix, Solaris, etc. and can contain XML (Extensible Mark-up Language), HTML, and other client technologies such as JavaScript Basically ColdFusion is a programming language based on HTML and is used for creation of dynamic web pages. ColdFusion scores over other systems as it integrates browser, server and database technologies into Web applications.

ColdFusion is most often used for data-driven web sites or intranets, but can also be used to generate remote services such as SOAP web services or Flash remoting. It is especially well-suited as the server-side technology to the client-side Flex. ColdFusion can also handle asynchronous events such as SMS and instant messaging via its gateway interface, available in ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition.

ColdFusion provides a number of additional features out of the box. Among them:

• Client and server cache management
• Client-side code generation, especially for form widgets and validation
• Conversion from HTML to PDF and FlashPaper
• Data retrieval from common enterprise systems such as Active Directory, LDAP, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP, Microsoft Exchange Server and common data formats such as RSS and Atom
• File indexing and searching service based on Verity K2
• GUI administration
• Server, application, client, session, and request scopes
• XML parsing, querying (XPath), validation and transformation (XSLT)
• Server clustering
• Task scheduling
• Graphing and reporting
• Simplified file manipulation including raster graphics (and CAPTCHA) and zip archives (introduction of video manipulation is planned in a future release)
• Simplified web service implementation (with automated WSDL generation / transparent SOAP handling for both creating and consuming services