User Guide

viii Welcome to ColdFusion Server
Intended Audience
Installing and Configuring ColdFusion Server is intended for anyone who needs to
install, configure, and maintain ColdFusion Server 5. It describes:
• System requirements
• Installation processes for all supported operating systems
• Operating system-specific configuration instructions
• Basic configuration options using the ColdFusion Administrator
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.
Enhanced
performance
Core engine tuning
Take advantage of dramatically
improved server performance and
reduced memory usage to deliver
faster, more scalable applications.
Incremental page
delivery
Improve response time by delivering
page output to users as it is built.
Wire protocol
database drivers
Deliver high-performance ODBC
connectivity using new drivers.
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