| ColdFusion is considered as a versatile application server for its fast, extensible, scalable and cross-platform features. It works well with the Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks and Freehand. The key to ColdFusion is to know about the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). It is a tag-based language, exercised in use to develop the layout and for designing of the Web pages as well as to create the Web based applications.
ColdFusion Hosting renders you with an enormous benefit to build and deploy the potent web services without taking any downtime in training and it just takes a few lines of code in contrast to ASP, PHP or JSP. Hence, this thing makes people to opt for the option of: ColdFusion Web Hosting.
It gives a great functionality for: Online Database integration, Content Management Systems, Community building websites and for E-Commerce websites. It develops & gives out a scaleable e-business application, develops computer software in general and formulates dynamic data driven web sites in particular.
ColdFusion Web Hosting supplies many value-added services, such as:
• Client & server cache management.
• XML parsing, querying, and validation.
• Session, client, and application management.
• Conversion from HTML to PDF and FlashPaper.
• File indexing and searching service based on Verity K2.
• Task scheduling; Server clustering; GUI administration.
• Platform-independent database querying via ODBC or JDBC.
• Client-side code generation, particularly for: form widgets & validation.
• Data retrieval from the common enterprise systems, such as: Active Directory, LDAP, POP, HTTP, FTP, and Microsoft Exchange Server.
• Create remote services, such as: SOAP web services or Flash remoting.
• Handle asynchronous events, such as: SMS and instant messaging by means of its gateway interface, available in ColdFusion MX 7 Enterprise Edition.
Releases of all the versions of a ColdFusion:
1995: Allaire Cold Fusion version 1.0
1996: Allaire Cold Fusion version 1.5
1997, Jun: Allaire Cold Fusion version 3.0
1998, Jan: Allaire Cold Fusion version 3.1
1998, Nov: Allaire ColdFusion version 4.0 (space eliminated between Cold and Fusion to make it ColdFusion)
1999, Nov: Allaire ColdFusion version 4.5
2001, Jun: Macromedia ColdFusion version 5.0
2002, May: Macromedia ColdFusion MX version 6.0
2003, Oct: Macromedia ColdFusion MX version 6.1
2005: Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7
2007, July 30: Adobe ColdFusion 8
ColdFusion 8 is the most recent version of the ColdFusion, proposed by an Adobe. It is considered as the best invented server till date as with this server, development of rich internet applications becomes unproblematic owing to its significant performance & scalability. Besides this, .NET resources, pre-built AJAX components and PDF creation are been incorporated in the ColdFusion 8. Most of all, you can easily move your Cold Fusion MX 7 application into a ColdFusion 8 server. |