Simplified file manipulation including raster graphics (and CAPTCHA) and zip archives (introduction of video manipulation is planned in a future release).

XML parsing, querying (XPath), validation and transformation (XSLT).

Server, application, client, session, and request scopes.

File indexing and searching service based on Apache Solr.

Data retrieval from common enterprise systems such as Active Directory, LDAP, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP, Microsoft Exchange Server and common data formats such as RSS and Atom.

Client-side code generation, especially for form widgets and validation.

It is especially well-suited as the server-side technology to the client-side ajax.ĬoldFusion can also handle asynchronous events such as SMS and instant messaging via its gateway interface, available in ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition.ĬoldFusion provides a number of additional features out of the box. In 2001 Allaire was acquired by Macromedia, which in turn was acquired by Adobe Systems Inc in 2005.ĬoldFusion is most often used for data-driven websites or intranets, but can also be used to generate remote services such as REST services, WebSockets, SOAP web services or Flash remoting. Originally a product of Allaire and released on July 2, 1995, ColdFusion was developed by brothers Joseph J.

ColdFusion is often used synonymously with CFML, but there are additional CFML application servers besides ColdFusion, and ColdFusion supports programming languages other than CFML, such as server-side Actionscript and embedded scripts that can be written in a JavaScript-like language known as CFScript. CFML compares to the scripting components of ASP, JSP, and PHP in purpose and features, but its tag syntax more closely resembles HTML, while its script syntax resembles JavaScript. One of the distinguishing features of ColdFusion is its associated scripting language, ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). 5 Interactions with other programming languages.

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