Debugging And Troubleshooting Applications - Adobe 38043740 - ColdFusion Standard - Mac Development Manual

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DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS
Developing CFML Applications
The tag supports making HTTP requests. The tag uses the Unicode UTF-8 encoding for passing data
cfhttp cfhttp
by default, and you can use the attribute to specify the character encoding. You can also use the
charset cfhttpparam
tag attribute to specify the MIME type and character set of a file.
mimeType
LDAP
ColdFusion supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) through the cfldap tag. LDAP uses the UTF-8
encoding format, so you can mix all retrieved data with other data and safely manipulated it. No extra processing is
required to support LDAP.
WDDX
ColdFusion supports the cfwddx tag. ColdFusion stores WDDX (Web Distributed Data Exchange) data as UTF-8
encoding, so it automatically supports double-byte character encodings. You do not have to perform any special
processing to handle double-byte characters with WDDX.
COM
ColdFusion supports COM through the cfobject tag. All string data used in COM interfaces is constructed
type="com"
using wide characters (wchars), which support double-byte characters. You do not have to perform any special
processing to interface with COM objects.
CORBA
ColdFusion supports CORBA through the cfobject tag. The CORBA 2.0 interface definition language
type="corba"
(IDL) basic type "String" used the Latin-1 character encoding, which used the full 8-bits (256) to represent characters.
As long as you are using CORBA later than version 2.0, which includes support for the IDL types wchar and wstring,
which map to Java types char and string respectively, you do not have to do anything to support double-byte
characters.
However, if you are using a version of CORBA that does not support wchar and wstring, the server uses char and string
data types, which assume a single-byte representation of text.
Searching and indexing
ColdFusion supports Verity search through the cfindex, cfcollection, and cfsearch tags. To support multilingual
searching, the ColdFusion product CD-ROM includes the Verity language packs that you install to support different
languages.

Debugging and Troubleshooting Applications

Adobe ColdFusion provides detailed debugging information to help you resolve problems with your application. You
configure ColdFusion to provide debugging information, and use the and tags to provide detailed
cftrace cftimer
information on code execution. You can also use tools for validating your code before you run it and troubleshoot
particular problems.
Note: Adobe Dreamweaver provides integrated tools for displaying and using ColdFusion debugging output. For
information on using these tools, see the Dreamweaver online Help.
Last updated 1/20/2012