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adobe coldfusion 9
design, develop, and maintain standards-based websites and applications
Adobe® ColdFusion® application server and software enables developers to rapidly build, deploy, and maintain robust Internet applications for the enterprise. ColdFusion 9 allows developers to condense complex business logic into fewer lines of code. ColdFusion Builder is an Eclipse based IDE for efficiently managing ColdFusion application development from concept through deployment. Together, they offer a complete set of tools and services for creating rich, robust Internet applications.
ideal for …
- Professional Web Developers
top reasons to invest in Adobe® ColdFusion 9
| Server Monitor | Improve usability through greater visibility into internal application performance. By providing information about the server — including requests, queries, memory usage, and errors — the Server Monitor and Multiserver Monitor allow you to troubleshoot and fine-tune applications in development and production. Set alerts and other actions to help prevent memory problems, slow pages, or other performance issues. |
| Application-specific settings | Build more secure applications by separating application resources on the same ColdFusion server. ColdFusion 9 allows you to set ColdFusion mappings and custom tag paths on a per-application basis. |
| Multi-threading | Improve application performance through more granular control of application threads. The CFTHREAD tag allows you to create, end, join together, or temporarily suspend the processing of specific ColdFusion threads. |
| Image manipulation | Improve performance by minimizing I/O calls related to images. Leverage more than 50 CFML tags and functions for creating and manipulating images. For example, the CFIMAGE tag provides shortcuts to the most common image actions, including reading, writing, resizing, rotating, and converting images. |
| Presentations on demand | Keep online presentations current by dynamically populating them with the latest available data. Create high-quality, on-demand presentations and eLearning courses with animation, audio, and video that are dynamically generated on the server with up-to-the-minute data and content from multiple external sources. |
| Atom and RSS feeds | Easily create and read Atom and RSS feeds with less code. The CFFEED tag can read and create RSS and Atom feeds in commonly used formats, so you can quickly and easily create complex content syndication applications. |
| ZIP and JAR file features | Easily access and manipulate ZIP and JAR files with less code. Use the CFZIP and CFZIPPARAM tags, so you can manipulate ZIP and JAR files for working with file archives. |
| User-based Administrator and RDS access | Improve application security by restricting access to the ColdFusion server. Create multiple ColdFusion Administrator and Remote Development Services (RDS) accounts with individual permissions. Permissions determine which pages and functions are accessible in the ColdFusion Administrator and the Administrator API. |
| File manipulation functions | Improve performance by breaking apart intensive I/O tasks with several file manipulation functions in CFML. For example, read and write large files in defined segments, rather than in a single operation. |
top reasons to upgrade to Adobe® ColdFusion 9
| Server Manager | Save time by simultaneously performing administrative tasks across multiple servers from one central console. You can create data sources, schedule tasks, apply hot fixes, clear caches, and compare settings across a cluster of ColdFusion servers. |
| Tight integration with ColdFusion Builder | Leverage the power of Adobe ColdFusion Builder™ software, a highly customizable, Eclipse™ based IDE that enables developers to build ColdFusion applications faster than ever before. |
| Object-relational mapping | Build database-independent applications using object-relational mapping (ORM) based on the open source Hibernate library. Save time and manage database logic and connectivity without writing any SQL. Use the ORM Application Wizard in ColdFusion Builder to generate ColdFusion components (CFCs) for logic and connectivity without a single line of code. |
| Enhanced caching | Improve application performance by caching portions of pages with infrequently updated data. Using the CFCACHE tag, you can cache objects or fragments of a page, specify a caching algorithm, and select disk- or memory-based caching. |
| CFC and CFML improvements | Save time and improve performance and error handling with several updates to CFCs and CFML, including the onServerStart() method, nested CFTRANSACTIONS, local variable scope, and implicit getters and setters. |
| CFSCRIPT support | Work faster with new support for CFSCRIPT, including full function, component, and interface definition. |
| Virtual File System support | Build applications requiring fewer I/O calls with the new Virtual File System. Dynamically generate CFM files and execute them directly from memory. |
| Enhanced PDF functionality | Reduce required code by adding images to PDF files directly within the CFPDF tag. Brand and protect files by easily adding watermarks, headers, and footers to your PDF files. |
| Instance-based licensing | Now take your ColdFusion applications to the cloud with new instance-based licensing in ColdFusion 9. In addition to your physical deployment, install ColdFusion 9 on up to 10 virtual instances in the cloud environment of your choice. |
| Enhanced Adobe Flash Platform integration | Take advantage of faster Flash Remoting to increase application performance. Use ColdFusion as a Service to speed up RIA development by easily accessing many existing enterprise services via AMF without writing a single line of CFML. |
frequently asked questions
- Who should use ColdFusion?
- ColdFusion is designed for developers who build dynamic websites and Internet applications with HTML-based or rich interfaces. Its intuitive scripting language, CFML, makes ColdFusion a great choice for new developers coming from static HTML page design and development. At the same time, advanced features such as ColdFusion components (CFCs), integrated debugging, XML processing, Java and .NET integration, web services, and the extensible event gateway architecture make ColdFusion ideal for developers creating complex web applications and RIAs.
- Do I need any tools to develop ColdFusion applications?
- ColdFusion pages are simple text files, just like HTML pages, so you can develop them with any text editor. In conjunction with ColdFusion 9, Adobe has released a new Eclipse™ based IDE that is deeply integrated with ColdFusion 9, Adobe ColdFusion Builder™ software. ColdFusion Builder provides a unified, customizable, and extensible development environment to code applications, manage servers, and deploy projects. Many developers are also using ColdFusion together with the Adobe Flex® development framework to create powerful RIAs. Adobe Flash Builder™ software is an Eclipse based IDE for developing RIAs that combines the richness of desktop applications with the cross-platform reach of the Flash Platform.
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