Additional Features of ColdFusion

• Simplified database access
• Client and server cache management
• Client-side code generation, especially for form widgets and validation
• Conversion from HTML to PDF and FlashPaper
• 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 Verity K2
• 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