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Building Complete Applications

As the complexity of your applications grows, so will your need for a development tool that can create complete, reliable, and robust applications. ColdFusion provides you with the tools needed to create these applications, and addresses all the concerns shared by Web application developers the world over.

Scalability -- ColdFusion is highly scalable, as proven by the number of high-visibility commercial ColdFusion powered Web sites, many of which are handling millions of hits a day. ColdFusion is not a CGI application, it is a multi-threaded Web server extension (ISAPI, NSAPI, WSAPI, Apache) and is designed to handle massive loads. And when application load exceeds the capabilities of the hosting server, ColdFusion applications can be setup to run on multiple hosts seamlessly and transparently.

Security -- ColdFusion is designed to take advantage of any and all existing security systems, including the underlying NOS security scheme, and any Web server based security.

Extensibility -- ColdFusion supports all the popular Web based technologies and products (for example, HDML, Verity, CyberCash, ICVerify, OpenMarket). You can also extend CFML by writing your own tags in C, C++, CFML, or plug in any COM and DCOM objects as needed. Numerous third party add-on products are now available to further extend ColdFusion capabilities.

Rapid Development -- As seen above, ColdFusion code is incredibly easy to write. CFML was designed to facilitate rapid prototyping, development, and deployment.


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