Adobe 38000827 Evaluator Guide

Adobe 38000827 - Macromedia ColdFusion MX Standard Edition Manual

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    Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide Evaluator's Guide 1
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    accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This Guide is for informational purposes only. MACROMEDIA MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS Macromedia logo, ColdFusion, the ColdFusion logo, Dreamweaver, UltraDev, Flash, JRun, HomeSite, Macromedia Generator, and Macromedia Spectra are
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    ® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide Contents Introduction 4 Planning Your Evaluation 5 Evolution of ColdFusion 6 Introducing ColdFusion MX 7 ColdFusion MX Customer Profile 8 Macromedia ColdFusion MX Feature Overview 9 Top 10 Reasons to Buy ColdFusion MX 10 Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to
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    is business automation, commerce or content publishing, ColdFusion MX is ideally suited for the next generation of business applications. This Evaluator's Guide is designed to quickly introduce you to ColdFusion and highlight the important changes and enhancements in this new release. For complete
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    development environment on the Internet. Once you've completed the guide, we suggest you download the more advanced tutorials and experience first-hand the full capabilities of ColdFusion MX. Everything you need, including tutorials, downloads, support, and more is waiting for you at our Getting
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    ® MX Evaluator's Guide EVOLUTION OF COLDFUSION ColdFusion MX offers native support for handling XML data and for publishing and consuming web services. As a result, connectivity to the Flash Player and tight integration with the application development capabilities in Macromedia Flash MX, ColdFusion
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    Guide , content publishing systems, self-service applications, commerce sites, and and designers alike. With complete support for the new features in ColdFusion Flash MX authoring environment and the Flash Player. As a result, Flash users can easily develop and debug rich applications built with Flash
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    Evaluator's Guide COLDFUSION MX access to powerful technologies like XML, web services, Java, and .NET through an intuitive Flash Player. ColdFusion MX addresses the needs of this community through tight integration with Macromedia Flash MX. With native connectivity to the Flash Player and support
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    ® MX Evaluator's Guide MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX Macromedia Flash developers to use the same scripting language for both client and server logic. ! Complete support for component models, including XML, web services, Java, .NET/COM, and CORBA. ! Support for developing and deploying applications on
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    ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide TOP 10 REASONS TO BUY COLDFUSION support for server-side ActionScript, a fast, secure protocol for passing data from ColdFusion MX to Macromedia Flash clients, and integrated debugging in the Flash MX authoring environment. 4. Harness the power of XML and web services
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    ® MX Evaluator's Guide TOP 10 REASONS TO UPGRADE TO COLDFUSION MX 1. Integrate with .NET, XML, and web services. Easily integrate with XML data using built-in XML document parsing, XSL transformations, and automated serialization of data into XML. Incorporate web services into your applications
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    Guide 3 File System Web page COM/EJB Web Services Server When a user clicks hypertext link on As it processes the CFML instructions, ColdFusion dynamically generates output that content, such as data for Flash or desktop applications such as editor, the integrated support in the Dreamweaver
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    Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide other web technologies. Developers can then test the pages locally on the page, with each product name and its associated price on its own line. These instructions on the ColdFusion page are processed entirely on the server. Only the results, in this case
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    Flash Web Graphing Search Remoting Services J2EE Infrastructure Services ColdFusion Scripting Environment Charting & Full-Text Flash Web Graphing Search Remoting Services Microsoft technologies through native support for the COM component model and integration with .NET web services. On top of
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    Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide ColdFusion Scripting Environment The rapid server scripting environment in many powerful new capabilities to CFML, including native support for XML and web services, connectivity to Macromedia Flash, and ColdFusion Components, a powerful yet approachable
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    Guide ColdFusion Components ColdFusion MX features a new technology that empowers developers to easily create component-based applications that take advantage of rich clients and web services developers, the Flash Player, and web services. CFCs also within teams. As illustrated in the diagram below
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    Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide Self-Documenting Interfaces Another major benefit of components is simplified team development and code reuse. One of the largest impediments to effective team development is
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    Guide Web Services Web services are playing an increasingly important role in the world of web applications because they help solve a difficult problem create web services for reuse by other ColdFusion developers or by developers using other technologies that support web services, such Microsoft
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    Evaluator's Guide Publishing Web Services in ColdFusion MX ColdFusion MX also makes it easy to expose functionality built in ColdFusion as a web service. Once a method is exposed as a web service, it can be invoked by another ColdFusion application or by any other technology that supports the SOAP
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    MX Evaluator's Guide XML Handling The data types and describe relationships. XML addresses this problem by providing developers with a single text-based markup XML document). The ColdFusion MX scripting environment provides native support for both of these powerful technologies, making it easy
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    Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide Performing these types of operations on XML data in other environments usually requires multiple calls to a specialized object and in-depth knowledge of its programming
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    Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide Dreamweaver MX Integration Developers primarily experience the productivity of ColdFusion MX Dreamweaver MX provides complete support for the new features in ColdFusion MX, including ColdFusion Components, XML, web services, server-side ActionScript, 22
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    Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide enhanced charting, and integrated debugging. Dreamweaver MX also includes a wealth of support resources for ColdFusion developers, including integrated reference material, inline code hints, and rich tag editors. Using the visual features in Dreamweaver
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    ® MX Evaluator's Guide Using these powerful configuration. Dreamweaver MX also provides support for creating ActionScript files. This enables Macromedia Flash users to use the powerful other development languages. Working with Components and Web Services Dreamweaver MX also provides a unique set of
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    Guide Working with web services in Dreamweaver MX is just as simple as working with components. Dreamweaver MX allows developers to visually browse any web service . Integrated Debugging Dreamweaver MX also includes integrated support for ColdFusion debugging information, allowing developers to view
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    Guide Without leaving the Dreamweaver environment, developers can see information on query performance, variable values, exceptions, and template stacks. They can also jump to problem found in ColdFusion Studio. It also includes updated support for the new ColdFusion MX tags. Using this new
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    Flash Player, built-in support for server-side ActionScript, and integrated debugging within the Macromedia Flash MX authoring environment, ColdFusion MX provides the easiest way to develop rich Internet applications with Macromedia Flash. Macromedia Flash Remoting Service The Macromedia Flash
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    tool for debugging applications that use the Flash Remoting service, and this tool is tightly integrated with the ColdFusion MX environment. The NetConnect Debugger monitors calls between ColdFusion MX, the Macromedia Flash Player, and the Macromedia Flash application - providing a unified view of
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    Guide technologies like XML, WML, and web services. ColdFusion MX takes this openness to the Just as there are thousands of downloadable ColdFusion tags on the Macromedia ColdFusion Apache project (Apache.org). The code sample below illustrates how a ColdFusion developer could import a JSP tag library
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    MX Evaluator's Guide technologies. The developing and deploying applications on Windows, ColdFusion MX supports the latest versions of Windows and IIS and provides also enables integration via web services. The sample code below shows how easy it is to invoke a web service built in ASP.NET using
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    Evaluator's Guide Enhanced Charting ColdFusion 5 introduced the ColdFusion charting engine, an embedded service for producing professional graphs and business charts from application data. ColdFusion MX takes this feature to the next level by expanding the number and complexity of supported charts
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    Easily track errors while working in the Flash MX authoring environment with full support for ColdFusion debugging information. Debug rich applications by monitoring messages being exchanged between ColdFusion MX and the Flash Player, including variables, execution times, and error information
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    Guide Feature Key Benefit Code Compatibility Analyzer Simplify migration from previous releases by automatically identifying deprecated tags and other problem of Queries Increase performance of inmemory queries with expanded support for standard SQL, expressions, and aliasing. Include aliases
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    Guide Feature ColdFusion Components Key Benefit Create self-documenting, reusable application components for use by web applications, Flash applications, or as web services server probe detects a problem. Page Compilation Speed page times. JSP/Servlet Support Create hybrid Internet applications
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    Evaluator's Guide OPEN - Leverage the latest industry standards and infrastructure. ColdFusion MX supports open industry support for ColdFusion MX applications. Web Services Integrate external web services into your applications or publish your own web services using a standardsbased web services
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    Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide PRODUCT AND COMPANY FACTS Full Pricing $799/Server $4999/Server $3399/CPU ColdFusion MX Server Professional Edition ColdFusion MX Server Enterprise Edition ColdFusion MX for
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    Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Macromedia ColdFusion MX Server Windows® Linux Intel Pentium processor or faster Intel Pentium Processor or faster Windows 98 SE, Windows Red Hat Linux 6.2,
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