Chapter 6. ColdFusion Components

ColdFusion components (CFCS) are another feature that’s new to ColdFusion MX. They are more than just a series of tags; they’re a whole new way of creating reusable code as well as an approach to developing ColdFusion applications.

ColdFusion components bring to the language a new and exciting approach for code reuse as well as development practices that are more akin to object-oriented programming practices than previous code-reuse paradigms in ColdFusion. CFCs give ColdFusion developers an unprecedented level of functional abstraction and encapsulation as well as standardized interfaces for a variety of access methods, including SOAP-based web services.

CFCs, like ColdFusion’s other code-reuse methods such as CFML ...

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