ColdFusion is a database-interfacing, rapid development platform. It is offered by Adobe and used by many small and large IT solution providers for a wide variety of applications. The developers and programmers generally wish to work in ColdFusion because its performance level is tremendous as compared with its cost. Thus, performance, together with cost effectiveness, is the main factor that drives companies towards ColdFusion development.
Why ColdFusion is so important?
Major benefits of using this technology are:
• It helps in rapid application development.
• It improves performance level and allows infinite functionality.
• It is more powerful than Java Enterprise Level Application Server.
• It is based upon the J2EE platform due to it web application and web server can be scaled easily to allow multiple servers to work compatibility to perform the same task.
• Many new features have been added in the latest release version of ColdFusion to provide a fresh composure to your website.
• ColdFusion applications are also easy to roll out and test.
ColdFusion Development
Many companies these days focus on
developing products and services based on ColdFusion. The variety of services, which could be delivered with ColdFusion, is countless; however, few very popular services that are demanded by clients are:
• Web application development servicesrn • Product development servicesrn • Porting and Migration services
• ColdFusion-Flex integration software development servicesrn • Server Administration and Support servicesrn • QA/testing servicesrn • Consulting servicesrn • Content Management System development services (ColdFusion CMS)
• Support and Maintenance servicesrn • Programming and scripting services
• SaaS/ISV application development servicesrn • Java/.NET integration servicesrn • ColdFusion-Flash integration software development servicesrn • Web services developmentrn • Reports development servicesrn • Portal Developmentrn • Document Management System Development services
Basically, ColdFusion is a programming language based on HTML and is used for creation of dynamic web pages. It scores over other systems as it integrates browser, server and database technologies into Web applications. ColdFusion Web pages include tags written in CFML (ColdFusion Mark-up Language) that simplify integration with databases and avoid the use of more complex languages for creation of translating programs. It works on most platforms like Windows, Linux, UNIX, Solaris, etc. and can contain XML (Extensible Mark-up Language), HTML, and other client technologies such as JavaScript.
This technology has so many benefits that clients as well as service providers want to consider ColdFusion for various developments. Many small and large companies are offering their clients to become ColdFusion partners and tap the immense potentialities of this technology. However, you should remember that ColdFusion is not only a technology, but it is an art that can only be accomplished by a few. So, you should be careful while selecting a Development Company. You should go with the company that could, at least, offer you the following technologies:
• ColdFusion 8/9rn • ColdFusion AJAXrn • ColdFusion ORMrn • ColdBox Frameworkrn • ModelGlue + ColdSpringrn • Custom MVCrn • ColdFusion with Flex & Java componentsrn • JavaScript / jQueryrn • RDS servicern • Google Adwords CF APIsrn • Fusetalk Forums 3.2, 4.0