ColdFusion

[jason s]

ColdFusion is a software language or an application server which is used for Internet application development. For example - dynamic websites. ColdFusion is similar to JavaServer Pages, PHP or Microsoft ASP.NET. But ColdFusion was the first one of them to provide capabilities to a developer to create dynamic websites attached to a backend database. Main features of ColdFusion are as follows:

* Client-side code generation, especially for form widgets and validation
* Conversion from HTML to PDF and FlashPaper
* GUI administration
* File indexing and searching service based on Verity K2
* Platform-independent database querying via ODBC or JDBC
* Session, client, and application management
* Server clustering
* Task scheduling
* Client and server cache management
* XML parsing, querying, and validation
* Data retrieval from common enterprise systems such as Active
Directory, LDAP, POP, HTTP, FTP,Microsoft Exchange Server