Why developers like Adobe ColdFusion

What is Adobe ColdFusion?

Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web application development platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995.[1] (The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called ColdFusion, though is more accurately known as CFML.) ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database. By version 2 (1996), it became a full platform that included an IDE in addition to a full scripting language.

Adobe ColdFusion is a tool in the Integrated Development Environment category of a tech stack.

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Who uses Adobe ColdFusion?

Companies

14 companies reportedly use Adobe ColdFusion in their tech stacks, including Product Ops, eCommerce, and Avenue.io.

Product Ops

eCommerce

Avenue.io

University of Utah ...

GraphPad Software

hoxell

GPShelf

Gravity Web Works

VASCOsoft Web Studio

Developers

93 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Adobe ColdFusion.

Sites Web

web-cf

charitynavigator

My Stack

Web App Dev

My Stack

AllTime

My Stack

Adobe ColdFusion Integrations

htmx

CloudSponge

Decisions about Adobe ColdFusion

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Adobe ColdFusion in their tech stack.

Bobby Roy

Sep 29, 2020 | 10 upvotes · 11.1K views

Needs advice

Adobe ColdFusion

and

Flask

I have a client who currently has a Adobe ColdFusion 8 based web application. It is very modest and is only used by one or two people. It is primarily used for editing very basic data (e.g. a few text fields and text boxes for various entities). I have no experience with ColdFusion, but it seems like it would be better to go with some other technologies/stacks/etc. to do such a thing, especially given that there is a significant upfront cost to ColdFusion. It doesn't seem to be a very "popular" "framework" to use, and it would be harder to find support for it, down the road. Any recommendations about a good set of tech/framework to use for a simple CRUD application? I was thinking of perhaps looking into Flask with Python, or Django. Any thoughts?

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Adobe ColdFusion's Features

Simplified database access
Client and server cache management
Client-side code generation, especially for form widgets and validation
Conversion from HTML to PDF
Data retrieval from common enterprise systems such as Active Directory, LDAP, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP, Microsoft Exchange Server and common data formats such as RSS and Atom
File indexing and searching service based on Apache Solr
GUI administration
Server, application, client, session, and request scopes
XML parsing, querying (XPath), validation and transformation (XSLT)
Server clustering
Task scheduling
Graphing and reporting
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 (with automated WSDL generation / transparent SOAP handling for both creating and consuming services
Asynchronous programming, using Futures
Command line REPL
Distributed cache support (Redis, memcached, JCS)
REST playground capability
Performance Monitoring Toolset
API Manager
NTLM support
Swagger document generation
Support for HTML5 web sockets

Adobe ColdFusion Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Adobe ColdFusion?

Lucee

It is a light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language for the JVM that enables the rapid development of simple to highly sophisticated web applications.

PHP

Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Visual Studio

Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.

IntelliJ IDEA

Out of the box, IntelliJ IDEA provides a comprehensive feature set including tools and integrations with the most important modern technologies and frameworks for enterprise and web development with Java, Scala, Groovy and other languages.

PyCharm

PyCharm’s smart code editor provides first-class support for Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, CSS, popular template languages and more. Take advantage of language-aware code completion, error detection, and on-the-fly code fixes!

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