Coldfusion Studio; Coldfusion Application Pages; Coldfusion Server; Coldfusion Administrator - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 4.5-DEVELOPING WEB Develop Manual

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ColdFusion Studio

ColdFusion Studio is the development environment for ColdFusion Server. It offers
visual development tools, including dynamic page previews using your Web browser,
an interactive debugger, a query builder, an expression builder, project management
and source control tools, and many other productivity enhancements. To learn more
about ColdFusion Studio, see Using ColdFusion Studio.

ColdFusion application pages

Application pages are the functional parts of a ColdFusion application, including the
user interface pages and forms that handle data input and format data output. They
can contain ColdFusion tags (CFML), HTML tags, CFScript, JavaScript, and anything
else you can normally embed in an ordinary HTML page. The default file extension
used for ColdFusion application pages is .CFM.
CFML
CFML is a tag-based server scripting language that encapsulates complex processes
such as connecting to databases and LDAP servers, and sending email. The core of the
ColdFusion development platform language is more than 70 server-side tags and more
than 200 functions.

ColdFusion Server

ColdFusion Server listens for requests from the Web server to process ColdFusion
application pages. It runs as a service under Windows NT and as a process under
UNIX. For information on installing and configuring ColdFusion Server, refer to
Administering ColdFusion Server.

ColdFusion Administrator

You use the Administrator to configure various ColdFusion Server options, including:
ColdFusion data sources
Debugging output
Server settings
Application security
Server clustering
Scheduling page execution
Directory mapping
See Administering ColdFusion Server for details on using the Administrator.
Developing Web Applications with ColdFusion