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 Build Automation category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Simplified database accessClient and server cache managementClient-side code generation, especially for form widgets and validationConversion from HTML to PDFData 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 AtomFile indexing and searching service based on Apache SolrGUI administrationServer, application, client, session, and request scopesXML parsing, querying (XPath), validation and transformation (XSLT)Server clusteringTask schedulingGraphing and reportingSimplified 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 servicesAsynchronous programming, using FuturesCommand line REPLDistributed cache support (Redis, memcached, JCS)REST playground capabilityPerformance Monitoring ToolsetAPI ManagerNTLM supportSwagger document generationSupport for HTML5 web sockets