August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
976 pages
38h 8m
English
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ColdFusion Architecture
There are several components that make up the ColdFusion environment, from which you can develop ColdFusion applications. As I mentioned earlier, a ColdFusion application is simply a collection of templates (web pages) that work together to allow a user to perform a task. These templates don’t exist in a vacuum, however. To get a better idea of how a ColdFusion application is constructed, you need to understand the components that make up the ColdFusion environment:
- ColdFusion Application Server
The ColdFusion Application Server processes all the CFML code in the templates passed to it by the web server. It then returns the dynamically generated results to the web server, so that the output can be sent to the user’s browser. The ColdFusion Application Server integrates with a number of popular web servers via native APIs and is also capable of running in CGI mode. Once the ColdFusion Application Server is set up, it works silently in the background, so we won’t be talking much about it in this book.
- ColdFusion Studio (or other text-editing software)
ColdFusion Studio is the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the ColdFusion Application Server. Studio provides developers with a visual environment for developing, testing, debugging, and deploying ColdFusion applications. Although ColdFusion applications can be written using any text editor capable of saving ASCII output, ColdFusion Studio offers many advantages that make it worth considering. This ...
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