Chapter 18: Debugging And Troubleshooting Applications - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-DEVELOPING COLDFUSION MX Develop Manual

CHAPTER 18
Debugging and Troubleshooting Applications
ColdFusion MX provides detailed debugging information to help you resolve problems with your
application. This chapter describes how you configure ColdFusion MX to provide debugging
information, how to understand the information it provides, and how to use the tag to
cftrace
provide detailed information on code execution. It also provides additional information on tools
for validating your code before you run it and techniques for troubleshooting particular problems.
Note: Macromedia Dreamweaver MX provides integrated tools for displaying and using ColdFusion
debugging output. For information on using these tools, see the Dreamweaver MX online Help.
Contents
Configuring debugging in the ColdFusion MX Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
Using debugging information from browser pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
Controlling debugging information in CFML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
Using the cftrace tag to trace execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Using the Code Compatibility Analyzer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
Troubleshooting common problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
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