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Vol. 8 Iss: 5 |
 I've written a lot lately about the growing strength of the ColdFusion development community - shown by the onslaught of frameworks and the rapid adoption and support for these frameworks, the growing number of bloggers, new conferences and the great success of the CFUnited conference,...Jul. 19, 2006 Reads: 20,698 Replies: 2 |
 Enterprise Application aRchive (EAR) files are a standard and portable manner for packaging applications to be deployed on J2EE application servers, such as Adobe JRun, BEA WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere. An EAR file is, in essence, just a big ZIP file with a special layout of the directo...Jul. 19, 2006 Reads: 17,201 Replies: 1 |
 So often in this column I feel that I'm writing about basic concepts and using trivial examples. It's often up to you, as the reader, to figure out how to apply these concepts to your development. I thought it might be a good idea to take some space to try to bring a lot of the concept...Jun. 28, 2006 Reads: 15,172 Replies: 1 |
 For the past several weeks, I've been immersed in writing a large application - so immersed, in fact, that I missed writing my column for last month! This application has been particularly interesting to me because it makes such extensive use of AJAX - that combination of JavaScript, D...Jun. 28, 2006 Reads: 14,898 Replies: 1 |
 As ColdFusion has become a leading choice for large-scale quick-to-market application development, new CF server releases have been adapted to make it possible to integrate object classes into your Web applications. Since ColdFusion MX, developers have been able to architect applicatio...Jun. 23, 2006 Reads: 16,677 Replies: 3 |
 Code reuse has always been an important principle in a software developer's toolbox. While this principle often applies to source code, developers have also tried to apply the same formula to Web content. By grabbing content from one Web site, the developer can reuse it in new and uniq...Jun. 21, 2006 Reads: 10,397 Replies: 2 |
 One of the latest crazes in Web development is AJAX. Unless you've been living in a cave for the last year, you've heard of this old, yet currently popular, technique for making HTTP requests to a server without refreshing the Web page. While claims of smaller bandwidth, faster respons...Jun. 20, 2006 Reads: 15,548 Replies: 1 |
 Putting support for XML processing in ColdFusion 6.0 was regarded as a major feature upgrade. With the switch to Java, ColdFusion could leverage the existing Java functions in Jakarta Commons and add support for things like Web Services (Axis). However, binding itself to Java also boun...Jun. 20, 2006 Reads: 17,122 Replies: 1 |
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