The Power of JAVA – The Convenience of CFML
CFML was developed by Jeremy and his brother Joseph Allaire in 1995 to develop web-based applications. CFML was originally powered by Coldfusion Server, the world's first web application server developed in C. In 2005, CFML was ported to the Java environment and Coldfusion developed into a real-time java byte code generating engine on JAVA servers. Workcube chose to use CFML to combine the power of Java with the ease of CFML. Because CF essentially runs on popular open source java servers such as Tomcat and JBOSS. ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) is a tag-based language that is very simple to learn and use, and it is very easy to do complex and scaled work.
CFML uses a tag-based syntax similar to HTML. For many developers, CFML is easier to write and read. They can easily learn and use internal tags to quickly create websites. Custom Tags - It is very easy to extend the language and create and maintain custom libraries by creating CustomTags. CFML can also be written as a scripting language with CFScript. Developers can present the code in a cleaner and more readable format. Therefore, it becomes easier to support and upgrade projects. CFML developers run advanced debugging directly in the browser. This creates very high speed and testing opportunity for a developer.
CFML offers HTML5 support after version 11 to facilitate the development of web applications and mobile applications. Thus, a single development can be used on PC, tablet and mobile. CFML natively runs on Apache Tomcat, one of the J2EE or JavaEE application servers. Tomcat comes with advanced features like improved caching and security enhancements. It also allows users to test their websites and mobile applications on multiple devices.
ColdFusion Engine, which converts CFML into Java byte code, has the corporate support of Adobe, the world's 5th largest software producer and the most admired software company. Apache Tomcat runs under the ColdFusion Engine. Additionally, Lucee and OpenBD running on Tomcat are alternative ColdFusion engines.
CFML is unique in that it runs in both open and java byte code mode at the same time. Because Workcube combines the power of Java with the ease of CF, it has been able to do a lot of work with a small number of people. ColdFusion is the open and simple world of those who are apart from the herd.
Resources
The learn CFML in a week site and book is a useful resource and reference book for those who want to learn ColdFusion.
http://learncfinaweek.com/
CFDocs is an up-to-date quick reference document site about CF. source.
https://cfdocs.org/
CFML Reference Site by Adobe, the main developer of CFML
https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/cfml-reference/user-guide.html