Rapid Development; Scalable Deployment; Open Integration - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 4.5-DEVELOPING WEB Develop Manual

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Rapid development

The ColdFusion development platform enhances the speed and ease of development
through the following features:
A tag-based server scripting language that is powerful and intuitive.
Two-way visual programming and database tools.
Remote interactive debugging for quickly identifying and fixing problems.
Web application wizards to automate common development tasks.
Source control integration to enable team development.
Secure file and database access via HTTP for remote development.
A tag-based component architecture for flexible code reuse.

Scalable deployment

ColdFusion delivers a high-performance platform for application deployment through
the following features:
A multi-threaded service architecture that scales across processors.
Database connection pooling to optimize database performance.
Just-in-time page compilation and caching to accelerate page request
processing.
Dynamic load balancing for scalable performance in a cluster environment
(Enterprise Edition only).
Automatic server recovery and fail-over for high availability (Enterprise Edition
only).

Open integration

ColdFusion integrates with new and legacy technologies through the following
features:
Database connectivity using native database drivers (Enterprise Edition only),
ODBC, or OLE-DB.
Embedded support for full text indexing and searching.
Standards-based integration with directory, mail, HTTP , FTP , and file servers.
Connectivity to distributed object technologies including CORBA (Enterprise
Edition only), COM (Windows Enterprise Edition only), Java objects and EJBs.
Open extensibility with C/C++ and Java.
Developing Web Applications with ColdFusion