You're just about ready to go. But before you do, you need to know a little about the sample applications you'll be using. Orange Whip Studio is a low-budget movie studio waiting for its first big break. To help it get there, you need to create a series of Web applications. These include:
Your job throughout this book is to build these and other applications. TIP Most of the applications created in this book share common resources (images and data, for example) but are actually stand-alone, meaning they don't require components or code created elsewhere. Although this isn't typical of real-world application development, in this book it is deliberate and by design. Here are a few things you must know about how to manage code and resources:
ON THE CD The files and directories on the accompanying CD follow the same organization and naming conventions as described here. Assuming you are running ColdFusion locally (this is advised), and assuming you installed the files in the default locations, the URL to access the ows folder will be http://localhost:8500/ows/ if you're using the integrated HTTP server, or http://localhost/ows/ if you're using an external HTTP server. You would then access folders beneath ows, such as the folder for this chapter, as http://localhost:8500/ows/4/ or http://localhost/ows/4/ (again, depending on whether you're using ColdFusion's integrated HTTP server). NOTE Once again, 8500 is the default port used by ColdFusion's integrated Web server. The default port used by the integrated Web server in a JRun/ColdFusion installation is 8300. If you are using an external Web server (IIS or Apache, for example) then the default port of 80 will likely be used (and can also be entirely omitted from URL's). TIP If you have problems resolving host localhost, TRy using IP address 127.0.0.1 instead. 127.0.0.1 is a special IP address that always refers to your own host, and localhost is the host name that should always resolve to 127.0.0.1. Macromedia Dreamweaver is a development environment for creating Web sites and applications. Built by combining key features of Macromedia Dreamweaver (a tool primarily for page designers), Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev (used for rapid application prototyping and basic application development), and Macromedia ColdFusion Studio (a professional-strength editing and coding environment), this new integrated development environment is the one development tool designers and developers alike can use. As a ColdFusion developer you'll be using Dreamweaver extensively, which is why I dedicated an entire chapter to this product (see Chapter 2, "Introducing Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004"). For now, to give you a sneak peak at what ColdFusion is all about, you'll use Dreamweaver to build two applications:
You'll set up both of these applications using Dreamweaver, but you'll create each very differently. The former will use Dreamweaver features that require no coding at all, and you'll code the latter manually. And now you're really ready to go. |