Professional codfusion 5.0

• The new features of ColdFusion 5.0
• Extending ColdFusion with Java, COM, and CORBA
• Integrating ColdFusion with XML and WDDX
• ColdFusion as a web service client and server
• Creating mobile applications with WAP and WML
• Optimizing the architecture and coding of your site for performance and security
• Integrating ColdFusion with client-side technologies such as the DOM and JavaScript
• Building CFX tags in Java and C++
• Administrating your ColdFusion server

Book Overview

Macromedia ColdFusion is probably the most complete package of tools ever created for developing dynamic web applications. It runs on a number of operating systems, works with almost any web server, and integrates seamlessly with COM, CORBA and Java. The Enterprise edition comes with all the tools you need to create a robust, secure, and scalable web application, including full-text indexing, and clustering and load-balancing software. ColdFusion also has its own complete Integrated Development Environment, ColdFusion Studio, which provides just about all the features you can think of for creating, editing, and debugging ColdFusion templates. Perhaps most importantly, it's extremely easy to use.

Who is this book for?

In this book, we cover the latest release of ColdFusion (5.0) virtually from start to finish. It will be ideal for anyone coming into ColdFusion from another programming environment, or for existing ColdFusion developers who want up-to-the-minute information about what's new in ColdFusion 5.0. You won't need any previous experience of ColdFusion to get the most out of this book, but you will need some programming experience, and should have a reasonable understanding of basic web technologies such as HTML and JavaScript.

Table of Contents

• Section I - Getting Started
• Chapter 1 Introducing ColdFusion
• Chapter 2 Installing ColdFusion
• Chapter 3 ColdFusion Application Manager
• Chapter 4 Using ColdFusion Studio
• Chapter 5 CFML Basics
• Chapter 6 Processing Forms
• Chapter 7 Complex Data Objects

• Section II - ColdFusion and Databases
• Chapter 8 Querying the Database
• Chapter 9 Working with Databases
• Chapter 10 Advanced Queries

• Section III - Deeper into ColdFusion
• Chapter 11 State Management
• Chapter 12 Reusing Templates
• Chapter 13 Error and Exception Handling
• Chapter 14 CF Script
• Chapter 15 User-Defined Functions
• Chapter 16 Working with the Local File System
• Chapter 17 Drawing Graphs and Charts
• Chapter 18 Full Text Indexing

• Section IV - XML
• Chapter 19 Introduction to XML
• Chapter 20 WDDX - Web Distributed Data Exchange
• Chapter 21 XML Queries and Transformations
• Chapter 22 Web Services, SOAP and the .NET Framework

• Section V - Extending ColdFusion
• Chapter 23 Internet Protocols
• Chapter 24 Extending ColdFusion with COM and CORBA
• Chapter 25 Server-Side Java
• Chapter 26 CFX API
• Chapter 27 WAP and WML
• Chapter 28 Cascading Stylesheets, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML
• Chapter 29 IE 5+ Rich-Client Functionality
• Chapter 30 Macromedia Flash Component Kit for ColdFusion

• Section VI - Advanced Administration
• Chapter 31 Scheduling Tasks
• Chapter 32 Working with Log Files
• Chapter 33 Archive Management

• Section VII - ColdFusion Best Practices
• Chapter 34 Application Architecture
• Chapter 35 Common ColdFusion Development Mistakes
• Chapter 36 Optimizing Performance
• Chapter 37 Clustering and Load Balancing
• Chapter 38 Security

• Section VIII - Case Study
• Case Study: Wrox Auction