
How Does ColdFusion Work?
ColdFusion is an application server, so it works as an add-on to most Web servers.
When a request comes into the Web server for a document with the .cfm extension
(or any other extension mapped to ColdFusion), the Web server “asks” the
ColdFusion server for the document rather than reading it from the drive (see
Figure 10.1, steps 1 and 2).The ColdFusion server will read the template requested
along with all its associated files (headers, footers, includes, and so on), and compile it
into bytecode, which is an intermediate language of machine independent code dis-
cussed briefly in Chapter 7, “Securing Your Java Code.”This result—which ...