Advantages of Coldfusion

With ColdFusion MX, you can build and deploy powerful web applications and web services with far less training time and fewer lines of code than ASP, PHP, and JSP. The latest version 6.1 delivers simplified installation and migration, a streamlined product family, updates to key ColdFusion features, and a dramatic increase in runtime performance.

Main Advantages of Coldfusion

• High Runtime Performance
• Reliable
• Simpler

It's been over a year since Macromedia released the most important and ambitious ColdFusion ever, ColdFusion MX. Considering the scope of undertaking, ColdFusion MX has been an incredible success. The enhancements in ColdFusion MX have given developers important new capabilities, and the move to the Java-based architecture has helped us increase performance and provide developers with exciting new deployment options. And ColdFusion MX 6.1 is an absolutely vital update to ColdFusion MX. It's faster, simpler, and much more powerful than even ColdFusion MX.

Advantages of ColdFusion MX 6.1

Simplified Installation and Migration

• Provides clear instructions and explains options in detail
• Gracefully handles nonstandard installations (the non–plain-vanilla ones that gave ColdFusion MX a hard time)
• Works out-of-the-box with multihomed systems
• Includes an advanced web server configuration wizard
• Provides improved upgrade and migration tools
• Ensures far greater backward compatibility than ever before
• Continues to support silent installation for those that need it

New Operating System (OS) Support

• Windows Server 2003 (and IIS 6)
• RedHat Linux 8
• RedHat Linux 9
• SuSE Linux 8
• Solaris 9
• AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1

Faster Development

ColdFusion MX 6.1 comes with a brand new compiler, one that compiles from CFML to Java bytecode directly, without generating Java source code and spawning another compiler first. The result? Blinding fast execution—so fast that you'll likely not even notice the difference between the initial compile and subsequent requests.

Faster Runtime

The new compiler has no real impact on runtime—its job is to improve development time. But ColdFusion MX 6.1 improves runtime performance too. ColdFusion MX 6.1 is 172% faster than ColdFusion 5 and 160% faster than ColdFusion MX.

Improved Protocols

• The CFHTTP tag now supports all HTTP operations ( GET, POST, HEAD, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS).
• The CFHTTP tag now provides access to all headers and content, and provides explicit control over timeouts and proxy support.
• The CFPOP tag now supports the retrieval of multipart e-mail messages (those with text and HTML parts contained within a single message).
• The CFINVOKE tag now supports secure connections (through the HTTPS protocol).
• The CFINVOKE tag now provides control over timeouts and proxy support.

Improved CFMAIL Tag

The most popular Internet protocol tag must be the CFMAIL tag, and Macromedia has dramatically enhanced it, too.

Improved CFCs

ColdFusion components are the most important CFML language enhancement in ColdFusion MX. See my articles in the ColdFusion Development Center CFC area for more information. ColdFusion MX 6.1 fixes several issues with CFCs and adds the two most requested enhancements:

Other Bits and Pieces

• A new Wrap() function, which you can use to insert breaks into text to force wrapping—used internally by the new CFMAIL tag when you use the WRAP attribute
• Lots of COM improvements and the introduction of a ReleaseCOMObject() function, which does exactly what its name suggests
• Improved CFCHART tag performance
• An update to the Macromedia Flash Remoting engine
• An update to the embedded AXIS engine to v1.1, providing numerous SOAP enhancements, including better interaction with .NET Web Services

Versioning Changes

You are getting ColdFusion MX, ColdFusion MX for J2EE, and JRun 4—all for the same price and the same upgrade.

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