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Enhancing ColdFusion MX Applications

Course Status:	Released	Courseware Features
Course Language:	English
Course Duration:	4 Hours
Deployment Options:	Online, Interactive CDs, Network,

Audience

Existing ColdFusion 5 users wishing to gain experience in advanced ColdFusion MX development; web and enterprise application developers who have had an introduction to ColdFusion development and wish to learn advanced development techniques

Prerequisites

The Macromedia ColdFusion MX: Foundation learning path or equivalent experience; at least three months experience developing and deploying ColdFusion web applications; practical experience of SQL data manipulation commands, including SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE

Course Aim

The learning path builds on a fundamental understanding of Macromedia ColdFusion development to introduce advanced ColdFusion development. Students are introduced to advanced techniques, such as exception handling, using complex data types, and using persistent variables to maintain state in web applications. The learning path goes on to cover code-reuse techniques, including custom tags, user-defined functions, and components. It also describes how to extend the capabilities of a ColdFusion application by using Verity to provide search functonality and by using XML and WDDX to exchange data with other applications and web sites.

Learning Objectives

To describe how to enhance ColdFusion MX applications by adding error-handling, search, and data-exchange functionalities to them

Topics Covered

Error handling Introduction to error handling in ColdFusion MX Using the Try/Catch methodology in ColdFusion MX ColdFusion MX error-handling strategies Handling errors in ColdFusion MX Using Verity Searching documents with Verity in ColdFusion MX Searching databases with Verity in ColdFusion MX Exchanging Internet data Using the CFHTTP tag in ColdFusion MX Using WDDX in ColdFusion MX Using XML in ColdFusion MX Working with XML document objects in ColdFusion MX Using web services in ColdFusion MX