COLDFUSIONYOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT5 THINGS

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Adobe ColdFusion is becoming a star recently and more and more people want to learn more about this rapid web application development platform. If you are also curious about what ColdFusion can do here are 5 important things you need to know about this popular platform:

ColdFusion makes it easier and faster for apps to interact with the server and show or modify data from a remote database. ColdFusion uses ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) standard that does not tie it to one database, which is a great advantage.

It’s still a programming language, but it is not that different from HTML and its script syntax resembles JavaScript.

IT’S USEFUL IFYOU HAVE EXISTING

JAVA CODE

COMPATIBLE WITH A VARIETY OF PLATFORMS

Because ColdFusion can run on top of Java and can call Java classes you can make use of existing Java code. In fact, Macromedia has marketed ColdFusion as “a scripting layer for J2EE.”

ColdFusion is an Adobe product so it works well with Flash or, for example, with Dreamweaver as you can insert ColdFusion code into Dreamweaver files easily.

ColdFusion supports a variety of platforms like Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac and anything else that runs a supported JREE.

COLDFUSION OFFERS SIMPLIFIED DATABASE ACCESS

WORKS WELL WITH OTHER MACROMEDIA PRODUCTS

Sources:http://coldfusion-development.blogspot.ro/2009/03/advantages-and-disadvantages-of.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_ColdFusion

Does ColdFusion sound like an attractive platform for developing web apps?

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