ColdFusion

ColdFusion MX 7 code is compiled into Java bytecode, making it extremely portable, flexible and powerful. ColdFusion is made up of two parts:

1. ColdFusion Application Server
2. ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)

ColdFusion Application Server
When a user navigates in a browser to a page that ends with a .cfm extension, the request is sent to a Web server, which directs the request to the ColdFusion Application Server (CFAS).

ColdFusion Markup Language
The ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) looks very similar to HTML or XML in that it is tag-based. A ColdFusion page generally has a mix of HTML and ColdFusion tags, and may contain other tags as well. ColdFusion tags can be distinguished from all other tags by their first two letters - cf (e.g, ).