Introduction



The Developing Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 Applications guide provides tools for developing Internet applications using Adobe ColdFusion. The guide is intended for web application programmers who are learning ColdFusion or want to extend their ColdFusion programming knowledge. It provides a solid grounding in the tools that ColdFusion provides to develop many different types of web applications of varying complexity.

    Using the Developing ColdFusion Applications guide

    The Developing ColdFusion Applications guide includes basic and advanced information on HTML. However, it is most useful if you have basic ColdFusion experience or have viewed the Getting Started experience, which is available from the Adobe ColdFusion Administrator. Use the guide in conjunction with the CFML Reference, which contains detailed information on the CFML language elements.

      About Adobe ColdFusion 9 documentation

      The ColdFusion documentation is designed to provide support for the complete spectrum of participants.

        Documentation set

        The ColdFusion documentation set includes the following titles:

        Book

        Description

        Installing Adobe® ColdFusion® 9

        Describes system installation and basic configuration for Windows, Macintosh, Solaris, Linux, and AIX.

        Configuring and Administering Adobe® ColdFusion® 9

        Describes how to perform ColdFusion administration tasks such as managing server settings, configuring datasources, managing security, deploying ColdFusion applications, caching, setting up CFX tags, monitoring server activity using the ColdFusion Server Monitor, and configuring web servers.

        Developing Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 Applications

        Describes how to develop your dynamic web applications. This book provides detailed information about using the CFML programming language and ColdFusion features, such as ColdFusion Web Services, ColdFusion Portlets, ColdFusion ORM, AJAX support, Flex and AIR integration, and integration with other products and technologies such as Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, and SharePoint.

        Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 CFML Reference

        Provides descriptions, syntax, usage, and code examples for all ColdFusion tags, functions, and variables.

        Viewing online documentation

        All ColdFusion documentation is available online in HTML and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Go to the documentation home page for ColdFusion on the Adobe website: www.adobe.com/go/learn_cfu_support_en. In addition, you can view the online documentation at www.adobe.com/go/prod_doc, which lets you add and view comments to the documentation.