User Guide

xvi About This Book
Intended Audience
Developing ColdFusion Applications is intended for Web application programmers
who are learning ColdFusion orwish to extended their ColdFusion programming
knowledge. It provides a solid grouding in the tools that ColdFusion provides to
develop Web applications. The initial chapters provide e instructions for creating a
basic ColdFusion application and are intended for those who are new to ColdFusion.
Later chapters cover more specific features in greater detail and are intended for
both new ColdFusion programmers and for those who are looking to extend existing
skill.
New Features
The following table lists the new features in ColdFusion 5:
Benefit Feature Description
Breakthrough
productivity
User-defined functions Create reusable functions to
accelerate development.
Query of queries
Easily integrate data from
heterogeneous sources by
merging and querying data in
memory using standard SQL.
Server analysis and
troublshooting
Quickly detect and diagnose
server errors with built-in server
reporting and the new Log File
Analyzer.
Powerful
business
intelligence
capabilities
Charting engine
Create professional-quality charts
and graphs from queried data
without leaving the ColdFusion
environment.
Enhanced Verity K2 full-text
search
Index and search up to 250,000
documents and enjoy greater
performance.
Reporting interface for
Crystal Reports 8.0
Create professional-quality
tabular reports from queried data
and applications.