23 Facts About ColdFusion

Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web-application development computing platform created by JJ Allaire in 1995.

One of the distinguishing features of ColdFusion is its associated scripting language, ColdFusion Markup Language.

Originally a product of Allaire and released on July 2,1995, ColdFusion was developed by brothers Joseph J Allaire and Jeremy Allaire.

ColdFusion is most often used for data-driven websites or intranets, but can be used to generate remote services such as REST services, WebSockets, SOAP web services or Flash remoting.

ColdFusion can handle asynchronous events such as SMS and instant messaging via its gateway interface, available in ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition.

Related searches

ColdFusion provides a number of additional features out of the box.

The equivalent to an HTML element, a ColdFusion tag begins with the letters "CF" followed by a name that is indicative of what the tag is interpreted to, in HTML.

ColdFusion MX was completely rebuilt from the ground up and was based on the Java EE platform.

ColdFusion MX was designed to integrate well with Macromedia Flash using Flash Remoting.

ColdFusion 8 is available on several operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows Server 2003.

ColdFusion 11 removed many features previously identified simply as "deprecated" or no longer supported in earlier releases.

Adobe ColdFusion, known generically as ColdFusion 2018, was released on July 12,2018.

ColdFusion 8 introduced the cfpdf tag to allow for control over PDF documents including PDF forms, and merging of PDFs.

ColdFusion was originally not an object-oriented programming language like PHP versions 3 and below.

ColdFusion 8 introduced the ability to serialize ColdFusion data structures to JSON for consumption on the client.

ColdFusion provides several ways to implement custom markup language tags, i e those not included in the core ColdFusion language.

Standard ColdFusion installation allows the deployment of ColdFusion as a WAR file or EAR file for deployment to standalone application servers, such as Macromedia JRun, and IBM WebSphere.

ColdFusion can be deployed to servlet containers such as Apache Tomcat and Mortbay Jetty, but because these platforms do not officially support ColdFusion, they leave many of its features inaccessible.

ColdFusion is a Java EE application, ColdFusion code can be mixed with Java classes to create a variety of applications and use existing Java libraries.

ColdFusion has access to all underlying Java classes, supports JSP custom tag libraries, and can access JSP functions after retrieving the JSP page context.

ColdFusion was one of the first scripting platforms to allow this style of Java development.

When ColdFusion templates are saved to disk, they are traditionally given the extension.

ColdFusion originated as proprietary technology based on Web technology industry standards.