User Guide

ColdFusion Features and Components 5
ColdFusion Features and Components
ColdFusion provides a comprehensive set of features and components for
developing and managing your Web applications. Using the ColdFusion
components, you can enhance the speed and ease of development, dynamically
deploy your applications, integrate new and legacy technologies, and build secure
applications.
About the features
The following table describes the ColdfFusion features that let you manage your Web
site:
Benefits Features
Rapid
development
• 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 using HTTP for remote
development
• A tag-based component architecture for flexible code reuse
Scalable
deployment
• A multithreaded 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 failover for high availability
(Enterprise Edition only)