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Feature Description
Application ColdFusion provides mechanisms, including the
security authenticating users and authorizing them to access specific
sections of your application. You can also use resource security,
which secures access to ColdFusion resources based on the
ColdFusion page location.
Application ColdFusion supports global applications that use different
globalization character sets and locales, and provides tags and functions
designed to support globalizing your applications.
Debugging tools Using debugging output, the
Code Analyzer, you can locate and fix coding errors.
Database access ColdFusion can access SQL databases to retrieve, add, and modify
and management data. This feature is one of the core functions of many dynamic
applications.
Queries of Queries You can use a subset of standard SQL within ColdFusion to
manipulate any data that is represented as a record set, including
database query results, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol) directory information, and other data.
LDAP directory ColdFusion applications can access and manipulate data in LDAP
access and directory services. These directories are often used for security
management validation data and other directory-like information.
Indexing and ColdFusion applications can provide full-text search capabilities for
searching data documents and data sources using the Verity search engine.
Dynamic forms With ColdFusion, you can use HTML and forms to control the data
displayed by a dynamic web page. You can also use the
to enrich your forms with sophisticated graphical controls, and
perform input data validation.
Data graphing You can use the
Macromedia Flash You can use native Flash connectivity built into ColdFusion MX to
integration help build dynamic Flash user interfaces for ColdFusion
applications.
Server-side Macromedia Flash Remoting lets Macromedia Flash MX
ActionScript developers create server-side ActionScript. ActionScript files can
directly access Macromedia ColdFusion MX query and HTTP
features through two functions:
XML document ColdFusion applications can create, use, and manipulate XML
processing and (Extensible Markup Language) documents. ColdFusion also
creation provides tools to use WDDX (Web Distributed Data Exchange), an
XML dialect for transmitting structured data.
Web services ColdFusion applications can use available SOAP (Simple Object
Access Protocol)-based web services, including Microsoft .NET
services. ColdFusion applications can also use ColdFusion
components to provide web services to other applications over the
Internet.
Java and J2EE You can integrate J2EE elements, including JSP (JavaServer
integration Pages) pages, JSP tag libraries, and Java objects, including EJBs
(Enterprise JavaBeans), into your ColdFusion application.
tag, logging features, and the
cftrace
tag to display your data graphically.
cfchart
CF.query
ColdFusion features described in this book
tag, for
cflogin
cfform
and .
CF.http
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