Description:
Macromedia ColdFusion 5 combines an intuitive, tag-based language; rich,visual tools; and a proven, reliable Web application server to give you afast and easy way to build and deploy powerful Web applications. At theheart of every ColdFusion application is ColdFusion Server, a powerful Webapplication server. It combines an open, extensible architecture thatintegrates easily with existing systems, and built-in application andinfrastructure services that help you present information elegantly. Thesubscription included with this product entitles you to receive everyrelease and update to this product for two years from the date of purchase.The Professional version is best for moderate-sized Web sites anddepartmental applications; for larger-sized Web sites and companies,ColdFusion Enterprise should be considered.ColdFusion supports a powerful server-side scripting language--ColdFusionMarkup Language (CFML)--that is extremely easy to learn and cleanlyintegrates with all popular Web languages and technologies. ColdFusionworks with multi-tier architectures through COM, CORBA, and EJBintegration. It can also be easily extended with new components createdwith Java servlets, Java classes, or C/C++. The features new to this version include the ability to create reusablefunctions to accelerate development, and easy integration of data fromheterogeneous sources by merging and querying data in memory using standardSQL. And you can now quickly detect and diagnose server errors withbuilt-in server reporting and the new Log File Analyzer. Createprofessional-quality charts and graphs from queried data without leavingthe ColdFusion environment, and index and search up to 250,000 documentswith optimized performance. This new version also allows you to createprofessional-quality tabular reports from queried data and applications,and take advantage of dramatically improved server performance and reducedmemory usage to deliver faster, more scalable applications.
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