User Guide

4 Developing Web Applications with ColdFusion
Rapid development
The ColdFusion development platform enhances the speed and ease of development
through the following features:
• A tag-based server scripting language that is powerful and intuitive.
• Two-way visual programming and database tools.
• Remote interactive debugging for quickly identifying and fixing problems.
• Web application wizards to automate common development tasks.
• Source control integration to enable team development.
• Secure file and database access via HTTP for remote development.
• A tag-based component architecture for flexible code reuse.
Scalable deployment
ColdFusion delivers a high-performance platform for application deployment through
the following features:
• A multi-threaded service architecture that scales across processors.
• Database connection pooling to optimize database performance.
• Just-in-time page compilation and caching to accelerate page request
processing.
• Dynamic load balancing for scalable performance in a cluster environment
(Enterprise Edition only).
• Automatic server recovery and fail-over for high availability (Enterprise Edition
only).
Open integration
ColdFusion integrates with new and legacy technologies through the following
features:
• Database connectivity using native database drivers (Enterprise Edition only),
ODBC, or OLE-DB.
• Embedded support for full text indexing and searching.
• Standards-based integration with directory, mail, HTTP, FTP, and file servers.
• Connectivity to distributed object technologies including CORBA (Enterprise
Edition only), COM (Windows Enterprise Edition only), Java objects and EJBs.
• Open extensibility with C/C++ and Java.