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Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide
ColdFusion Scripting Environment
The rapid server scripting environment in ColdFusion provides a highly approachable and
efficient model for Internet application development. At the heart of ColdFusion scripting
is the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), a tag-based language that accelerates
development by encapsulating the low-level details of Internet programming. ColdFusion
MX introduces 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 way to create structured, reusable code in ColdFusion.
Also new to the ColdFusion scripting environment is support for server-side ActionScript.
ActionScript is the JavaScript-based language used to write application logic in
Macromedia Flash. By bringing this language to the server, ColdFusion MX enables Flash
developers to use their familiar scripting environment to connect to ColdFusion resources
and easily deliver the results to client-side applications using the integrated Macromedia
Flash Remoting service.
ColdFusion Application Services
Unlike other web application development technologies, ColdFusion includes a suite of
built-in application services that make it easy to add powerful capabilities to your Internet
applications. In ColdFusion MX, these include a new enhanced charting and graphing
engine, integrated Verity full-text search, and the ground-breaking Flash Remoting
service, which provides a high performance protocol for exchanging data with application
clients built with Macromedia Flash MX. Using the native access to these services in the
ColdFusion scripting environment, developers can easily build advanced functionality into
their applications, without having to purchase addition components or spend valuable
time trying to integrate them.
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