Adobe ColdFusion Anthology

Adobe ColdFusion remains one of today’s significant Web services tools and frameworks, and stands to become even more important as a possible primary tool for cloud development as well. As important as ColdFusion is and continues to become, we thought it would be a good idea to tap the leading authority on ColdFusion, the Fusion Authority. We asked this community to compile the most important issues in their developer and user experiences into one single volume—an anthology of the most current technical articles published in the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update.

In it, you’ll get the following:

• The best and brightest ColdFusion expertise available today, from inside and outside of Adobe
• The most up-to-date content with the latest releases of ColdFusion
• Case studies and instances where ColdFusion is used in cloud-based development

Rather than take a soup-to-nuts approach that covers every single topic, including those that most people have learned already, this book takes specific items of interest and explains them so that you can hit the ground running, rather than having to wait until you’ve read the entire book.

What you’ll learn

• Why ColdFusion is important for your Web Services and cloud application development
• How the latest versions of ColdFusion can build cloud applications
• How to integrate the latest ColdFusion has to offer with Flex and other Adobe tools in your workflow
• How to use ColdFusion in pragmatic ways through examples, illustrations, and case studies
• How to implement ColdFusion best practices, testing techniques, and more

Who this book is for

This book is tailored for ColdFusion developers specifically, but many articles may be of use to general programmers as well.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Working with Applicationcfc
Chapter 2. Applicationcfc Reference
Chapter 3. From User-Defined Functions to ColdFusion Components
Chapter 4. onMissingTemplate()— Error Handler and So Much More
Chapter 5. “Say What?” Handling Unknown Messages with onMissingMethod()
Chapter 6. PDF Support in ColdFusion
Chapter 7. Image Processing in ColdFusion
Chapter 8. Tuning Your Java Virtual Machine: Finding Your Ideal JVM Settings Through Metrics Log Analysis
Chapter 9. The Shoemaker and the Asynchronous Process Elves
Chapter 10. Asynchronous Gateways Step-by-Step
Chapter 11. You Might Have a Performance Bottleneck If…
Chapter 12. An Introduction to Consuming and Deploying Web Services in ColdFusion
Chapter 13. Web Services and Complex Types
Chapter 14. Type Validation When Returning an Array of Components
Chapter 15. Sending E-mail the Right Way
Chapter 16. ColdFusion and Microsoft Exchange
Chapter 17. BlazeDS
Chapter 18. Object-Oriented Programming: Why Bother?
Chapter 19. The Object-Oriented Lexicon
Chapter 20. Design Patterns: Exposing the Service Layer
Chapter 21. Beans and DAOs and Gateways, Oh My!
Chapter 22. SOA for the Rest of Us
Chapter 23. How Base Classes Can Help You Generate Your Applications
Chapter 24. An Introduction to Frameworks
Chapter 25. Fusebox 5 Fundamentals
Chapter 26. Mach-II Fundamentals
Chapter 27. Model-Glue Fundamentals
Chapter 28. ColdSpring Fundamentals
Chapter 29. Reactor Fundamentals
Chapter 30. Developing Applications with Transfer
Chapter 31. FW/1: The Invisible Framework
Chapter 32. Separating Layout from Logic
Chapter 33. Creating Dynamic Presentations in ColdFusion
Chapter 34. Working with JSON and cfajaxproxy
Chapter 35. Prototyping for Interface Driven Architecture: Easing the Transition from Prototype to Application
Chapter 36. Turbo Charging Eclipse
Chapter 37. An Introduction to ColdFusion Builder
Chapter 38. The ColdFusion Debugger Explained: Interactive Step Debugging for ColdFusion 8 and 9
Chapter 39. Getting Started with Subversion
Chapter 40. Subversion in the Workflow
Chapter 41. Advanced Subversion
Chapter 42. Automating Your Development with Ant