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Meeting the Development Challenges
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ColdFusion was designed from the ground up to leverage the unique characteristics of the Web platform. It gives IT organizations the technology to overcome development challenges and build a new generation of business systems for online commerce, process automation, information publishing and an array of other applications.
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Rapid Development |
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Meeting the challenge of increased demand for productivity, ColdFusion includes a range of innovative technologies for rapid Web application development.
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Integrated Development Environment
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ColdFusion optimizes developer productivity with a complete rapid application development (RAD) environment that includes visual programming, database and debugging tools. Based on the award-winning HTML authoring technology in Allaire HomeSite, ColdFusion Studio provides a suite of visual tools specifically designed to enhance application development.
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Team Development Services
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ColdFusion enables team development in large projects with developers and servers distributed across multiple locations. ColdFusion Studio supports shared project management and server-side source control. Based on user accounts, ColdFusion Studio clients can access databases and files on remote ColdFusion Servers via HTTP with SSL encryption, so team development against hosted servers is straightforward to configure and manage.
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Tag-based server scripting
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ColdFusion uses a powerful, comprehensive server-side scripting environment with an easy-to-learn tag-based syntax that cleanly integrates with HTML and Extensible Markup Language (XML). The ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) creates a complete environment for building page-based applications that use COM or CORBA components.
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Scalable deployment |
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Answering the need to handle large user volumes, ColdFusion delivers applications that can scale to handle the most demanding Internet or intranet sites.
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High performance application delivery
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ColdFusion Server runs as a high-performance multi-threaded service. Advanced features such as just-in-time page compilation and database connection caching, make ColdFusion an effective platform for delivering high-performance Web applications.
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Server clustering
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With the release of version 4.0, ColdFusion Server now offers native support for deploying multi-server clusters with dynamic load balancing and automatic server fail over. Clusters give ColdFusion the ability to scale to meet the needs of the most demanding sites.
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Flexible server administration
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ColdFusion 4.0 includes a browser-based Administrator for the server and Windows management console for clusters. ColdFusion Server publishes important real-time performance statistics and a number of logs that support the process of server tuning and management. All of the administrative tools can be deployed remotely.
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Open integration |
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Overcoming the challenges created by technology chaos in the Internet market, ColdFusion tightly integrates with critical Internet and enterprise technologies across platforms to enhance development productivity.
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Advanced Database Connectivity
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ColdFusion offers the most advanced database development features available for creating robust database applications. The application server supports connectivity through ODBC, OLE-DB and native database drivers. Remote database development tools make building queries and database applications quick and easy.
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Internet Technology Integration
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ColdFusion 4.0 is tightly integrated with the full range of Internet protocols and technologies making it straightforward to use these technologies in applications. The application server includes native integration with e-mail servers, directories, file servers, distributed Web servers and object middleware including COM and CORBA. Extensions are available to connect to popular online payment servers and other technologies.
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Enterprise Extensibility
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ColdFusion is extensible with a wide range of technologies, including enterprise object standards, to support new functionality or connect to legacy systems. New components can be built with COM, CORBA, C/C++, VBScript, JavaScript and CFML.
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Complete security |
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Confronting security risks, ColdFusion provides security on every level from development through deployment, accelerating the process of creating and delivering applications.
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Secure development
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ColdFusion 4.0 team development services provide the infrastructure for secure remote development across intranets and extranets. With the ColdFusion Remote Development Services, server administrators can create developer accounts using existing NOS authentication. Then developers can access files and databases through ColdFusion Studio over HTTP.
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Secure deployment
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ColdFusion 4.0 provides a complete set of services for building and deploying highly secure applications on intranets, extranets and the Internet. Server administrators can control security at run-time and developers can leverage the security services for authentication and access control within applications. Using server sandbox security, companies can safely host multiple applications on the same server.
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