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Adobe ColdFusion

Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web application development platform
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What is Adobe ColdFusion?

Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web application development platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995.[1] (The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called ColdFusion, though is more accurately known as CFML.) ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database. By version 2 (1996), it became a full platform that included an IDE in addition to a full scripting language.
Adobe ColdFusion is a tool in the Integrated Development Environment category of a tech stack.

Who uses Adobe ColdFusion?

Companies
14 companies reportedly use Adobe ColdFusion in their tech stacks, including Product Ops, eCommerce, and Avenue.io.

Developers
93 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Adobe ColdFusion.

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Decisions about Adobe ColdFusion

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Adobe ColdFusion in their tech stack.

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I have a client who currently has a Adobe ColdFusion 8 based web application. It is very modest and is only used by one or two people. It is primarily used for editing very basic data (e.g. a few text fields and text boxes for various entities). I have no experience with ColdFusion, but it seems like it would be better to go with some other technologies/stacks/etc. to do such a thing, especially given that there is a significant upfront cost to ColdFusion. It doesn't seem to be a very "popular" "framework" to use, and it would be harder to find support for it, down the road. Any recommendations about a good set of tech/framework to use for a simple CRUD application? I was thinking of perhaps looking into Flask with Python, or Django. Any thoughts?

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Adobe ColdFusion's Features

  • Simplified database access
  • Client and server cache management
  • Client-side code generation, especially for form widgets and validation
  • Conversion from HTML to PDF
  • Data retrieval from common enterprise systems such as Active Directory, LDAP, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP, Microsoft Exchange Server and common data formats such as RSS and Atom
  • File indexing and searching service based on Apache Solr
  • GUI administration
  • Server, application, client, session, and request scopes
  • XML parsing, querying (XPath), validation and transformation (XSLT)
  • Server clustering
  • Task scheduling
  • Graphing and reporting
  • Simplified file manipulation including raster graphics (and CAPTCHA) and zip archives (introduction of video manipulation is planned in a future release)
  • Simplified web service implementation (with automated WSDL generation / transparent SOAP handling for both creating and consuming services
  • Asynchronous programming, using Futures
  • Command line REPL
  • Distributed cache support (Redis, memcached, JCS)
  • REST playground capability
  • Performance Monitoring Toolset
  • API Manager
  • NTLM support
  • Swagger document generation
  • Support for HTML5 web sockets

Adobe ColdFusion Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Adobe ColdFusion?
Lucee
It is a light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language for the JVM that enables the rapid development of simple to highly sophisticated web applications.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
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Adobe ColdFusion's Followers
95 developers follow Adobe ColdFusion to keep up with related blogs and decisions.