ColdFusion

World-Wide Web, database, tool Allaire Corporation's

commercial database application development tool that allows

databases to have a World-Wide Web interface, so a

database can be queried and updated using a web browser.

The ColdFusion Server application runs on the web server and

has access to a database. ColdFusion files on the web

server are HTML pages with additional ColdFusion commands to

query or update the database, written in CFML. When the

page is requested by the user, the web server passes the

page to the Cold Fusion application, which executes the CFML

commands, places the results of the CFML commands in the

HTML file, and returns the page to the web server. The

page returned to the web server is now an ordinary HTML

file, and it is sent to the user.

Examples of ColdFusion applications include order entry, event

registration, catalogue search, directories, calendars, and

interactive training. ColdFusion applications are robust

because all database interactions are encapsulated in a single

industrial-strength CGI script. The formatting and

presentation can be modified and revised at any time (as

opposed to having to edit and recompile source code).

ColdFusion Server can connect with any database that supports

ODBC or OLE DB or one that has a native database driver.

Native database drivers are available for Oracle and

Sybase databases.

ColdFusion is available for Windows, Solaris, and HP-UX.

A development environment for creating ColdFusion files,

called ColdFusion Studio, is also available for Windows.

Current version: MX(6), as of 2003-07-11.

The filename extension for ColdFusion files is .cfm

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