Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development
Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development
ISBN: 0321292693
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
- ADVANCED macromedia COLDFUSION MX 7 Application Development
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- Introduction
- Who Should Use This Book?
- How to Use This Book
- Part1.Creating High Availability Applications
- Chapter1.Understanding High Availability
- High Availability Explained
- How Do I Know My Server Load?
- The High-Availability Plan: Seven Must-Haves for Building High-Availability Solutions
- Some Truths about Web Hosting
- Active Site Monitoring
- The Quality of Service Guarantee
- What Next?
- Chapter2.Monitoring System Performance
- Monitoring Your ColdFusion MX 7 Server
- Active Monitoring
- Deciding What to Do Next
- Chapter3.Scaling with ColdFusion MX 7
- The Importance of Scaling
- Scaling Considerations
- How to Write ColdFusion MX 7 Applications That Scale
- Keeping Web Site Servers in Sync
- Multiple ColdFusion MX 7 Instances
- Hardware vs. Software Load Balancing Options
- Scaling with ColdFusion MX 7 Load Balancing
- Hardware Load-Balancing Options
- Finishing Up
- Chapter4.Scaling with J2EE
- Benefits of Deploying ColdFusion on J2EE Application Server
- Development Values of ColdFusion MX on J2EE
- How ColdFusion Lives on Top of Java Server
- Scaling with ColdFusion and JRun
- Scaling with Other Java Application Servers
- Tuning the Java Virtual Machine
- Summary
- Chapter5.Managing Session State in Clusters
- What Is Session State?
- The History of Managing State
- Options for Managing Session State
- Chapter6.Deploying Applications
- Deployment Options
- ColdFusion Archives
- J2EE Archives
- ColdFusion Compiler
- Choosing the Right Deployment Option
- Part2.Ensuring Security
- Chapter7.Understanding Security
- Security Risks
- Encryption
- Browser Validation
- Authentication and Authorization
- Chapter8.ColdFusion Security Options
- Operating System Security
- Web Server Security
- ColdFusion Security Framework
- ColdFusion Login Wizard Extension
- Chapter9.Creating Server Sandboxes
- Understanding Sandboxes
- Creating and Securing Applications Using Sandboxes
- Chapter10.Security in Shared and Hosted Environments
- Risks in the Shared Environment
- Securing RDS
- ColdFusion Sandbox
- Multiple Server Configurations
- Configuring ColdFusion for Multiple Hosts
- Other Issues
- Staying Informed
- Chapter11.Using the Administrator API
- Understanding the Admin API
- Building Custom Admin Consoles
- Security Implications for the Admin API
- Admin API Best Practices
- Part3.Advanced Application Development
- Chapter12.ColdFusion Scripting
- What Is cfscript?
- Implementing cfscript
- Common Problems and Solutions
- User-Defined Functions in cfscript
- Exception Handling in cfscript
- Chapter13.Using Regular Expressions
- Introducing Regular Expressions
- RegEx Support in ColdFusion
- Using Regular Expressions in ColdFusion
- Some Convenient RegEx UDFs
- Building a RegEx Testing Page
- Crafting Your Own Regular Expressions
- Learning More about Regular Expressions
- Chapter14.Working with XML
- XML Document Structure
- Parsing XML Documents
- Creating XML Objects
- Using Special Characters in XML
- XML Namespaces
- Validating XML
- More XML Resources
- Chapter15.Manipulating XML with XSLT and XPath
- Understanding XPath
- Transforming XML into Content by Using XSLT
- More XPath and XSLT Resources
- Chapter16.Using WDDX
- Introducing WDDX
- Using WDDX with ColdFusion
- Anatomy of a WDDX Packet
- Using WDDX Packets to Store Information in Files
- Other Places to Store WDDX Packets
- Exchanging WDDX Packets among Web Pages
- Binary Content in WDDX Packets
- Chapter17.Using JavaScript and ColdFusion Together
- A Crash Course in JavaScript
- Working with Form Elements
- Passing Variables to JavaScript
- Passing Data to JavaScript Using cfwddx
- Working with WDDX Packets in JavaScript
- Calling CFCs from JavaScript
- Passing Simple Variables to ColdFusion
- Chapter18.Creating Advanced Custom Tags
- Simple CFML Custom Tags: Back to Basics
- Paired Custom Tags
- Nested Custom Tags
- Creating an Advanced Custom Tag
- Where to Go From Here
- Chapter19.Creating Advanced ColdFusion Components
- A Review of CFCs
- CFC Syntax
- Calling CFCs
- Introspection
- Managing Components
- Persisting CFCs for Performance
- All This Object Stuff
- The THIS Scope
- Inheritance
- Persistence and Constructors
- Security
- CFC Good Practices
- Chapter20.XForms and CFML
- What s wrong with HTML Forms?
- The History of XForms
- What is XForms?
- Creating XForms in CFML
- XSL: The eXtensible Stylesheet Language
- Chapter21.Using Server-Side HTTP and FTP
- Overview
- cfhttp
- Putting cfhttp to Use
- cfftp
- Putting cfftp to Use
- Chapter22.Interacting with Directory Services
- Understanding LDAP
- Using cfldap
- Querying Public LDAP Servers
- Interacting with Directories
- Building an LDAP CFC
- Chapter23.ColdFusion and Globalization
- Why Go Global?
- What Is Globalization?
- Going Global
- Better G11N Practices
- Part4.Extending ColdFusion
- Chapter24.Creating and Consuming Web Services
- Understanding Web Services
- WSDL
- Creating Web Services
- Consuming Web Services
- Working with SOAP Requests
- Best Practices
- Chapter25.Integrating with .NET
- .NET Fundamentals
- .NET Web Service (Returning a Simple Type)
- .NET Web Service (Returning a Complex Type)
- ColdFusion Web Service (Returning a Complex Type)
- A Real-World Example
- Summing Up
- Chapter26.Extending ColdFusion with COM
- Chapter27.Integrating with Microsoft Office
- Document Properties
- Microsoft Jet
- Apache POI
- HTML, XML, and CSS
- Automation
- Chapter28.Extending ColdFusion with CORBA
- Chapter29.Extending ColdFusion with Java
- Using Java Class Objects
- Using Java Beans
- Using Tag Libraries
- Accessing the Underlying Servlet Context
- Integrating with Java Servlets and JSP Pages
- Integrating with EJBs
- Writing Java CFX Tags
- Chapter30.Extending ColdFusion with CFX
- Chapter31.Event Gateways
- What Is an Event Gateway?
- Creating a Simple Gateway Application
- Creating an Initiator Application Using the ColdFusion Gateway
- Debugging CFML Applications for Event Gateways
- Creating Your Own Custom Gateways
- A POP3 Custom Gateway
- Chapter32.Integrating with SMS and IM
- Understanding IM
- Defining IM Gateways
- Creating your First IM Application
- Creating Interactive Applications
- Understanding SMS
- Defining SMS Gateways
- Generating SMS Messages
- Responding to SMS Messages
- Extending Your Application Even Further
- Part5.Appendix
- AppendixA.The WDDX.DTD File
- Index
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Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development
ISBN: 0321292693
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 240
Pages: 240