Specifications

MIGRATING COLDFUSION 5

APPLICATIONS

This chapter describes the known compatibility issues between ColdFusion Server 5 and

ColdFusion MX. For late-breaking known compatibility issues, see the “Migrating

ColdFusion 5 Applications” section of the Release Notes on the Macromedia website.

• Migrating to ColdFusion MX.................................................................................. 2

• Planning your migration.......................................................................................... 3

• Using the ColdFusion Code Compatibility Analyzer ............................................... 4

• Using the settings migration wizard ......................................................................... 5

• CFML tags and attributes........................................................................................ 7

• CFML functions and variables............................................................................... 13

• Database operations............................................................................................... 16

• Localization ........................................................................................................... 18

• Other changes........................................................................................................ 24

• Tag and function examples .................................................................................... 28