New Features And Benefits Overview - Adobe 38000827 - Macromedia ColdFusion MX Standard Edition Evaluator Manual

Macromedia® ColdFusion® MX Evaluator's Guide

NEW FEATURES AND BENEFITS OVERVIEW

ColdFusion MX introduces many new features that make it even easier for users to create
rich Internet applications.
EASY - Deliver applications in record time.
ColdFusion MX delivers powerful new development capabilities within an easy-to-learn
and highly productive server scripting environment.
Feature
XML Handling
Dreamweaver MX
Development
Macromedia
Flash MX
Integration
Server-side
ActionScript
Expanded Charting
Capabilities
JSP/Servlet
Import
Key Benefit
Easily integrate with XML data
using built-in XML document
parsing, XSL transformations,
and automated serialization of
data into XML.
Accelerate development with
powerful visual layout and
prototyping, enhanced code
editing and development
capabilities, and integrated
debugging.
Easily track errors while
working in the Flash MX
authoring environment with full
support for ColdFusion
debugging information.
Use the familiar Macromedia
Flash scripting language to
create server-side logic
invoked by remote Flash
clients.
Easily produce professional
business graphics with
expanded graph types,
support for multiple data
series, and offline scheduling.
Leverage the growing universe
of JSP tag libraries by using
them just like ColdFusion
Custom Tags.
32
Example
Receive an XML news feed,
parse it with a single function,
and output the results as
though they were in an
ordinary array.
Simplify team development by
enabling designers, novice
developers and experts to
share a common development
environment.
Debug rich applications by
monitoring messages being
exchanged between
ColdFusion MX and the Flash
Player, including variables,
execution times, and error
information.
Build a dynamic reporting
system that pulls data from
ColdFusion and presents it in
an interactive Macromedia
Flash user interface.
Create a bar chart with a line
series overlay AND generate it
offline when your site's traffic
is low.
Download a JSP tag library for
math functions and integrate it
into your application – all
without having to know Java.