ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) makes web programming easy for new developers. With 70+ CFML tags and over 200 custom functions, practically any web application can be built quickly.

Cold Fusion has found a ready market with developers who don't have much programming experience.

Cold Fusion employs a tag based mark-up language (ColdFusion Markup Language).

ColdFusion was developed by the Allaire Corporation to be a simple to use, yet powerful alternative to Perl and other CGI technologies.

ColdFusion is an application that runs alongside a web server. Currently, it runs on Linux, Solaris, and Windows Servers. The ColdFusion Web Application Server works with the HTTP server to process requests for web pages. Whenever a ColdFusion page is requested, the ColdFusion Application Server executes the script or program the page contains.

Cold Fusion employs a tag based mark-up language (ColdFusion Markup Language). Similar in use to XML tags, CF tags allow all the functionality of a server-side scripting language. Because it is employed in a tags based format, CF tends to be popular with developers who have little programming experience.

ColdFusion is designed to run on multi-processor machines, and allows you to build a site that can be run on a "cluster" of servers.

ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)' makes web programming easy for new developers. With 70+ CFML tags and over 200 custom functions, practically any web application can be built quickly. Tools like the server side includes "<CFINCLUDE>" help speed the development and improve the readability of any web site.


Cold Fusion supports custom tags in a similar manner to JSP. Business logic can be written in 'CFScript' and stored as a custom tag for use throughout a web application. There are hundreds of 'CF Custom Tags' available for download from CF developer websites.

Allaire recently merged with Macromedia (creators of Flash and Dreamweaver) ensuring the continued development and support of Cold Fusion.

Cold Fusion is not 'open source' and a CF server isn't cheap. Although it is capable of supporting 'industrial' sized web applications, like PHP, Cold Fusion is a scripting language rather than a full development language. Although Cold Fusion can support J2EE and COM it isn't native to either.

Cold Fusion is likely to maintain wide support amongst certain developers. Particularly, amongst design and advertising agencies where CFML has proved to be very popular. Possibly though, the relatively high cost of buying a CF server and the emergence of the JSP and .NET initiatives will mean that Cold Fusion advocates become a rarer breed.

 

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