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ColdFusion applications rely on several core components:
The ColdFusion Server listens for requests from the Web server to process ColdFusion application pages. It runs as a service under Windows NT.
You use the Administrator to configure various ColdFusion Server options, including:
See Administering ColdFusion Server for details on using the Administrator.
ColdFusion Studio is the development environment for ColdFusion Server. It offers visual development tools, including dynamic page previews using your Web browser, an interactive debugger, a query builder, an expression builder, project management and source control tools, and many other productivity enhancements.
Application pages are the functional parts of a ColdFusion application, including the user interface pages and forms that handle data input and format data output. They can contain ColdFusion tags, HTML tags, CFScript, JavaScript, and anything else you can normally embed in an ordinary HTML page. The default file extension used for ColdFusion application pages is .CFM.
ColdFusion applications may interact with any database that supports the ODBC standard.
ColdFusion is not limited to ODBC data sources. You can also retrieve data from OLEDB, native database drivers, directory servers that support the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), mail servers that support the Post Office Protocol (POP), data indexed in Verity collections, and so on.
ColdFusion offers an open XML-based framework for extending ColdFusion with new server components and connectivity to enterprise systems using COM, CORBA, C/C++, VBScript, JavaScript, ActiveX, or CFML.
See the Building Cold Fusion Extensions chapter in Advanced ColdFusion Development for more information.
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