Advanced Cold Fusion 4 Application Development - Softcover

Forta, Ben; Weiss, Nate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789718103 ISBN 13: 9780789718105

Publisher: Que Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Provides coverage of ColdFusion's new and advanced features. Overviews support for server clusters, security frameworks, technology integration, and language extensions, and gives examples and case studies to demonstrate specific techniques. Material is organized in sections on scalability, security, extending ColdFusion, and advanced application development. A CD-ROM contains code listed in the book, and evaluation versions of software. For programmers experienced with this cross-platform Web application development tool. The author develops Internet and client/server applications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

Review:

Written as an advanced companion to Ben Forta's ColdFusion 4.0 Web Application Construction Kit, Advanced ColdFusion 4.0 Application Development is a topical guide to the more sophisticated aspects of ColdFusion 4.0.

The book is organized into four independent parts--scalability, security, extending ColdFusion, and advanced application development. Scalability covers the various ways to keep track of your server performance, scale up configurations, and keep track of clients. This first part also covers Cluster Cats--a load-balancing solution bundled with the Enterprise version of ColdFusion 4.

In the security section, the author discusses the User Authentication Framework and security sandboxes and explains how to integrate ColdFusion security with your network operating system. The third part focuses on how to modify and extend the ColdFusion environment to truly make the most of it. It begins with an extensive discussion on custom tags and CFX tags and then covers integration with Delphi, CORBA, Visual Tool Markup Language (VTML), and customization of the development environment.

The final part is a rapid-fire discussion of many key areas: Web Dynamic Data Exchange, code sharing with Visual Basic and Perl, scripting, intelligent agents, and interactions with the System Registry. The book wraps up with useful appendices that provide references for tags, functions, VTML, the Wizard Markup Language (WIZML), and the DTD file format. A companion CD-ROM provides a trial version of ColdFusion to make this definitive work complete. --Stephen W. Plain

About the Author:

Ben Forta is the Allaire Corporation product evangelist for the ColdFusion product line.

About this edition

• Publisher: Que Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0789718103
• ISBN 13: 9780789718105
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 600