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Cold Fusion Ch1- Why Cold Fusion

1.1 What is Cold Fusion?

Cold Fusion is a web application development tool that enables the rapid creation of interactive, dynamic, information-rich web sites.

Cold Fusion does not require coding in traditional programming languages. Instead, you create applications by extending your standard HTML files with high-level formatting functions, conditional operators and database commands. These commands are instructions to the Cold Fusion processor and form the building blocks on which to build industrial-strength applications.

This method of creating we applications has significant advantages over conventional application development.
  • Cold Fusion application can be developed rapidly because no coding is required other that using simple HTML style tags.
  • Cold Fusion applications are easy to test and roll out.
  • The Cold Fusion language contains all the processing and formatting functions you'll need (and the ability to create your own function if you really run into a dead end).
  • Cold Fusion applications are easy to maintain because there is no compilation or linking step, so the files you create are the files used by the Cold Fusion.
  • Cold Fusion provides all the tools you need to troubleshoot and debug your applications.
  • Cold Fusion comes with all the hooks needed to link to almost any database application
  • Cold Fusion is fast, thanks to its service-based architecture.

    References

    (1) the Cold Fusion Web Application Construction Kit, Second Edition.
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