Java™ for ColdFusion® Developers

2.1. The New ColdFusion Architecture

The release of ColdFusion MX in the summer of 2002 comes less than a year after its predecessor, ColdFusion 5. In fact, work on MX was begun long before ColdFusion 5 was released. There has been a good deal of excitement surrounding Macromedia's MX technology platform, which includes not only ColdFusion, but Flash and Dreamweaver.

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There has been much speculation about the origins of the “MX” moniker. Guesses about its significance include the following: It is an abbreviation of The Matrix, which featured a character named Neo (Neo was also the code name of the ColdFusion MX project); it is the ICANN domain abbreviation for the country of Mexico; it stands for Macromedia eXperience or Macro-media's eXperiment. ...