Adobe CFML
Adobe ColdFusion is the commercial ColdFusion Markup Language, more commonly known as CFML, is a scripting language for web development that runs on the JVM, the .NET framework, and Google App Engine. CFML like Lucee and Railo are open source.
ColdFusion was written in C and C++ until version 6.0 then the first Java-based version of ColdFusion was released in 2002. Before that Blue Dragon was the first Java implementation of the CFML language. Licensed BlueDragon around 2001 and made it available as a commercial product, eventually creating a .NET implementation of CFML. Open BlueDragon is a fork of the commercial BlueDragon product and was first released in 2008.
Why Adobe CFML?
- Client and server cache management
- Simplified database access
- Client-side code generation, form widgets and validation
- Conversion from HTML to PDF
- Data retrieval from common enterprise systems
- File indexing and searching service based on Apache Solr
- GUI administration
- Server clustering & Task scheduling
- Adobe ColdFusion VersionThe latest version is Adobe ColdFusion (2016 release), Codenamed: Raijin (and known generically as ColdFusion 2016) was released on February 16, 2016.Few New features in all editions (Standard, Enterprise, and Developer) include:
- 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
- Language enhancements
- Command Line Interface (CLI)
- PDF generation enhancements
- Security enhancements
- External session storage (Redis)
- Swagger document generation
- NTLM support
- API ManagerColdFusion originated as proprietary technology based on Web technology industry standards. However, it is becoming a less closed technology through the availability of competing products.