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About ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server

Macromedia ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server enables you to add
ColdFusion MX capabilities to your Sun Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application
server. It is a J2EE application that installs on top of your existing Java application server and
provides development, deployment, and management services for ColdFusion applications.

Overview of the J2EE platform

The J2EE platform is a set of detailed specifications and runtime services for developing
enterprise applications. A J2EE-compliant application is based on standardized, modular
components. J2EE provides these components with a complete set of services, and automatically
handles many details of the application behavior; for example, providing pluggable and scalable
database connection pooling and transparently managing web session clustering and failover.
J2EE provides a security model to protect your data and JDBC, an application programming
interface (API) to access your data. Also, J2EE is interoperable with other technologies that follow
the same modularized standard; for example, you can use Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), Java
Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), and XML in your applications.
For more information, see http://java.sun.com/j2ee.

Overview of ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server

The ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server runtime environment is a Java
application that takes advantage of the services in the J2EE platform to connect to databases,
manage security, and process application requests. It provides the full scripting environment of
Macromedia ColdFusion MX and lets you develop fully featured Rich Internet Applications
rapidly and efficiently. When ColdFusion MX for IBM WebSphere Application Server is installed
on top of the WebSphere Application Server, it uses that server's J2EE runtime to compile and
execute ColdFusion applications.
For more information about Macromedia ColdFusion MX, see the ColdFusion MX
documentation.
For information about differences between ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion MX for IBM
WebSphere Application Server on your operating system and application server version, see
"Differences between ColdFusion MX and ColdFusion MX on WebSphere" on page

System requirements

This section lists the system requirements for ColdFusion MX for Windows and UNIX. This
information was up-to-date at the time this document was written. For any updates, see
www.macromedia.com/go/cfmxj2ee-cert.
Note: If you use Macromedia ColdFusion Studio to develop your web applications, note that
ColdFusion MX supports ColdFusion Studio versions 4.5.2 and 5.0 only.
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