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46 Chapter 4: Lesson 1: Preparing to Build the Sample Application
Exercise 4: Developing the sample application
Using the application functional requirements and the database that is provided for this tutorial,
you are ready to use ColdFusion to develop the Trip Maintenance application. The remaining
lessons in the tutorial step you through the process of constructing this application. When you are
done, the main page for the Trip Maintenance application will appear as follows:
The main application page is where users will come to view information about trips and to
navigate to other ColdFusion pages to add, edit, or search for new trips.
The following lessons explain how to do these tasks:
• Configure your development environment (“Lesson 2: Configuring Your
Development Environment” on page 49).
• Retrieve data from a database (“Lesson 3: Retrieving Data” on page 59).
• Build dynamic queries (“Lesson 4: Building Dynamic Queries” on page 71).
• Build the trip detail page (“Lesson 5: Creating a Trip Detail Page” on page 85).
• Build the main application page (“Lesson 6: Creating a Main Application Page” on page 97).
• Write code to enforce Compass Travel business rules (“Lesson 7: Validating Data to Enforce
Business Rules” on page 103).