coldfusion

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coldfusion - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  ColdFusion
  
     <World-Wide Web, database, tool> Allaire Corporation's
     commercial database application development tool that allows
     databases to have a World-Wide Web interface, so a
     database can be queried and updated using a web browser.
  
     The ColdFusion Server application runs on the web server and
     has access to a database.  ColdFusion files on the web
     server are HTML pages with additional ColdFusion commands to
     query or update the database, written in CFML.  When the
     page is requested by the user, the web server passes the
     page to the Cold Fusion application, which executes the CFML
     commands, places the results of the CFML commands in the
     HTML file, and returns the page to the web server.  The
     page returned to the web server is now an ordinary HTML
     file, and it is sent to the user.
  
     Examples of ColdFusion applications include order entry, event
     registration, catalogue search, directories, calendars, and
     interactive training.  ColdFusion applications are robust
     because all database interactions are encapsulated in a single
     industrial-strength CGI script.  The formatting and
     presentation can be modified and revised at any time (as
     opposed to having to edit and recompile source code).
  
     ColdFusion Server can connect with any database that supports
     ODBC or OLE DB or one that has a native database driver.
     Native database drivers are available for Oracle and
     Sybase databases.
  
     ColdFusion is available for Windows, Solaris, and HP-UX.
     A development environment for creating ColdFusion files,
     called ColdFusion Studio, is also available for Windows.
  
     Current version: MX(6), as of 2003-07-11.
  
     The filename extension for ColdFusion files is .cfm
  
     (http://coldfusion.com/).
  
     (2003-07-27)