What Is Coldfusion; Editions Of Coldfusion - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5-DEVELOPING Develop Manual

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What is ColdFusion?

ColdFusion lets you create page-based Web applications using ColdFusion Markup
Language (CFML), the tag-based language you use to create server-side scripts that
dynamically control data integration; application logic; and user interface
generation. ColdFusion Web applications can contain XML, HTML, and other client
technologies such as CSS and JavaScript.
ColdFusion application pages are different from static HTML pages in the following
ways:

Editions of ColdFusion

There are two editions of ColdFusion: Enterprise and Professional. Using ColdFusion
Enterprise or Professional Edition and ColdFusion Studio, you can build Web
applications that leverage existing technologies and business systems such as
RDBMS, messaging servers, file repositories, directory servers, and distributed object
middleware. ColdFusion Enterprise also offers advanced security features, load
balancing, server failover, and visual cluster administration.
They are saved and referenced with a specific file extension.
The default ColdFusion file extension is cfm.
They contain ColdFusion Markup Language.
Chapter 1 Introduction to ColdFusion