Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development

✍ Scribed by Ben Forta

• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 696
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Written by the best known and most trusted name in the ColdFusion community, Ben Forta, The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is the best-selling ColdFusion series of all time - the books that most ColdFusion developers used to learn the product. This second volume of the series begins by introducing important code organization and management techniques, and then progresses to topics that include integrating with all sorts of other technologies (including PDF, Adobe Flex and Data Services, Ajax, advanced SQL and databases, ORM), debugging, and optimizing performance. From design and planning, to application deployment and troubleshooting, this instructional reference is all you need to successfully work, create, and progress with ColdFusion 9. Complete coverage of ColdFusion 9 is included in "Volume 1, Getting Started" (0-321-66034-X) and "Volume 3, Advanced Application Development" (0-321-67920-2).

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
Introduction......Page 24
PART 5 Creating Functions, Tags, and Components......Page 28
Thinking About Extending CFML......Page 30
Building your First UDF......Page 31
Creating Libraries of Related UDFs......Page 40
Creating General-Purpose UDFs......Page 45
Sharing UDF Libraries with Others......Page 48
Introducing CFML Custom Tags......Page 50
How to Use Custom Tags......Page 51
Writing Custom Tags That Display Information......Page 55
Custom Tags That Process Data......Page 61
Additional Custom Tag Topics......Page 67
Working with ......Page 68
Advanced Custom Tags......Page 69
Paired Custom Tags......Page 70
Nested Custom Tags......Page 75
Where to go from Here......Page 76
Review of ColdFusion Components......Page 78
Simple CFCs......Page 81
Introspection and HINTs......Page 89
Accessing a CFC via a URL......Page 92
Type Checking in Components......Page 94
Components That Hold Instance Data......Page 95
Working with Inheritance......Page 111
Defining Interfaces......Page 114
Implementing Security......Page 115
Using the OnMissingMethod Method......Page 118
Distributed CFCs and Serialization......Page 119
PART 6 ColdFusion Configuration and Performance......Page 122
The ColdFusion Administrator......Page 124
Server Settings......Page 125
Data and Services......Page 145
Debugging and Logging......Page 147
Server Monitoring......Page 153
Extensions......Page 154
Event gateways......Page 156
Security......Page 157
Packaging and Deployment......Page 159
CHAPTER 26 Managing Threads......Page 160
Using the Tag......Page 161
Accessing Thread Data......Page 165
Monitoring and Administering Threads......Page 171
Best Practices......Page 176
Options in the ColdFusion Administrator......Page 178
Improving Query Performance with Caching......Page 179
Caching Page Output......Page 186
PART 7 Integrating with ColdFusion......Page 200
Using cfpdf......Page 202
Using DDX......Page 223
Working with PDF Forms......Page 235
Creating PDF Files from Microsoft Office Documents......Page 243
Introducing ......Page 248
Manipulating Images with ......Page 250
Exploring Other ColdFusion Image Manipulation Techniques......Page 262
Creating and drawing Images with ColdFusion......Page 264
In Summary......Page 268
Ajax-Based Layout Controls......Page 270
Dynamically Populating Ajax Controls......Page 290
Working with ......Page 298
Working with JSON......Page 301
Special Considerations with ColdFusion Ajax Applications......Page 303
Debugging Ajax......Page 305
Security Options......Page 306
Understanding the Relationship Between ColdFusion and Flex......Page 308
ColdFusion-Powered Flex......Page 311
Data Translation......Page 313
Calling the Server (RPC)......Page 317
ColdFusion Flex Services......Page 320
Data Messaging......Page 321
Data Management......Page 322
ColdFusion and Flex Configuration Settings......Page 323
Debugging......Page 326
Configuring Flash Builder for Flash Remoting......Page 330
Flash Remoting Application......Page 331
Data Management Application......Page 338
Messaging Application......Page 345
Conclusion......Page 348
Comparison with LCDS Data Management......Page 350
Configuring the Flash Builder Project......Page 351
Building the ColdFusion Service CFC......Page 352
Building the Value Objects......Page 355
Initializing syncManager......Page 356
Loading data......Page 358
Editing and Saving Data......Page 359
Managing Conflicts......Page 360
Presenting ......Page 362
Embedding Content......Page 367
Styling your Presentation......Page 368
Adding Presenters......Page 370
Saving your Presentation......Page 372
Converting from PowerPoint......Page 373
Getting to Know Solr......Page 376
Creating a Search Tool for your documents......Page 377
Indexing SQL Data......Page 386
Improving Search Results......Page 397
Maintaining Collections......Page 401
Administering Collections with ......Page 402
ColdFusion Event Scheduling Concepts......Page 406
ColdFusion Scheduling Versus Other Kinds of Scheduling......Page 407
Creating, Modifying, and Deleting Scheduled Tasks......Page 408
Scheduling Application Examples......Page 416
PART 8 Advanced ColdFusion Development......Page 422
Why Use Stored Procedures?......Page 424
Calling Stored Procedures from ColdFusion Templates......Page 425
Welcome to ORM......Page 442
Getting Started with ORM......Page 443
Working with Persistent CFCs......Page 444
Hibernate and Sessions......Page 458
Working with Relationships......Page 459
Searching with ORM......Page 475
Lazy Is Good!......Page 479
Digging Deeper into Hibernate......Page 480
Introducing Regular Expressions......Page 482
RegEx Support in ColdFusion......Page 485
Using Regular Expressions in ColdFusion......Page 486
Using a RegEx Testing Page......Page 499
Crafting your Own Regular Expressions......Page 500
A New Era in CFML Scripting......Page 514
What Is ?......Page 515
Implementing CFCs in Script......Page 518
Replacing Tags with Script......Page 519
Defining Functions in Script......Page 532
Exception Handling in Script......Page 534
Common Problems and Solutions......Page 535
Conclusion......Page 537
XML Document Structure......Page 538
Reading and Creating XML Documents......Page 541
Using Special Characters in XML......Page 548
XML Namespaces......Page 550
Validating XML......Page 553
More XML Resources......Page 557
Understanding XPath......Page 558
Transforming XML into Content by Using XSLT......Page 563
More XPath and XSLT Resources......Page 582
Why Go Global?......Page 601
What Is Globalization?......Page 602
Going Global......Page 603
Better G11N Practices......Page 640
What Is an Exception?......Page 647
Introducing and ......Page 648
Basic Exception Handling......Page 649
Understanding What Caused the Error......Page 653
Writing Templates That Work Around Errors......Page 656
Writing Templates That Recover from Errors......Page 659
Deciding Not to Handle an Exception......Page 664
Using ......Page 665
Throwing and Catching your Own Errors......Page 668
Handling Exceptions with Scripting......Page 670
CHAPTER 45 Using the Debugger......Page 671
Overview......Page 672
Configuring ColdFusion and the Debugger......Page 673
Using the Debugger......Page 680
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C......Page 585
D......Page 587
E......Page 588
G......Page 589
I......Page 590
M......Page 591
P......Page 592
R......Page 593
S......Page 594
T......Page 596
X......Page 597