Specifications

2 Migrating ColdFusion 5 Applications
Migrating to ColdFusion MX
When you migrate your existing ColdFusion Server 5 applications to ColdFusion MX,
you might encounter a few incompatibilities between ColdFusion 5 and ColdFusion
MX. Macromedia strongly encourages you to develop a migration plan for porting
existing ColdFusion 5 applications to ColdFusion MX. For more information, see
“Planning your migration” on page 3.
Whether you encounter incompatibilities depends on the features of ColdFusion and the
CFML elements that your existing applications use. This book lists all of the known
incompatibilities that you might encounter, and suggests possible fixes. Also, you can use
the Code Compatibility Analyzer to facilitate locating and fixing incompatible code; for
more information, see “Using the ColdFusion Code Compatibility Analyzer” on page 4.
For information about migrating from earlier versions of ColdFusion, see the Support
section of the Macromedia website (http://www.macromedia.com/support).