Advanced Cold Fusion 4 Application Development [Paperback]

Ben Forta (Author), Gerry Libertelli (Author), Nate Weiss (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0789718103 | ISBN-13: 978-0789718105 | Publication Date: November 1, 1998 | Edition: Pap/Cdr

Written by some of the most respected ColdFusion developers around, this book is the only source for advanced the information needed by serious ColdFusion developers. From security issues and solutions to scripting the development environment, from fault-tolerance and load-balancing to distributed processing, from server sandbox deployment to intelligent agents, from writing language extensions to COM DCOM and CORBA integration, this book contains a wealth of hard earned knowledge gained by years of real-world experience. -Programmers, HTML developers, webmasters, network administrates, and database administrators alike will benefit from the techniques, technologies, and concepts taught in this book. -This book is design to be used in conjunction with (and as an extension to) our best-selling "ColdFusion 4 Web Application Construction Kit", ISBN 078971809X.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Written as an advanced companion to Ben Forta's ColdFusion 4.0 Web Application Construction Kit, Advanced ColdFusion 4.0 Application Development is a topical guide to the more sophisticated aspects of ColdFusion 4.0.

The book is organized into four independent parts--scalability, security, extending ColdFusion, and advanced application development. Scalability covers the various ways to keep track of your server performance, scale up configurations, and keep track of clients. This first part also covers Cluster Cats--a load-balancing solution bundled with the Enterprise version of ColdFusion 4.

In the security section, the author discusses the User Authentication Framework and security sandboxes and explains how to integrate ColdFusion security with your network operating system. The third part focuses on how to modify and extend the ColdFusion environment to truly make the most of it. It begins with an extensive discussion on custom tags and CFX tags and then covers integration with Delphi, CORBA, Visual Tool Markup Language (VTML), and customization of the development environment.

The final part is a rapid-fire discussion of many key areas: Web Dynamic Data Exchange, code sharing with Visual Basic and Perl, scripting, intelligent agents, and interactions with the System Registry. The book wraps up with useful appendices that provide references for tags, functions, VTML, the Wizard Markup Language (WIZML), and the DTD file format. A companion CD-ROM provides a trial version of ColdFusion to make this definitive work complete. --Stephen W. Plain

From Library Journal

ColdFusion is a very powerful application development environment for database-driven web sites. It is an excellent tool for developing web sites that need to grow. Forta discusses issues of scalability, security, extensibility, scripting, agent design, and distributed databases. This book is written by developers for developers and is not a beginners' introduction to ColdFusion. The CD contains an evaluation copy of ColdFusion for NT and Sun Solaris along with all code in the book as well as other third-party web utilities. For large academic and public libraries.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Que; Pap/Cdr edition (November 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789718103
• ISBN-13: 978-0789718105
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,476,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ben Forta is Adobe Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on SQL, Regular Expressions, JavaServer Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Over 1/2 million Ben Forta books have been printed in a dozen languages worldwide. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, as well as the certification tests and official study guides for those tests, writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for all CF Programmers, January 5, 2000

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B. Sorge "Infantryman" (Colorado Springs, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Cold Fusion 4 Application Development (Paperback)

I think I will have to buy another copy of this one soon. I have really worn it out. If you are an experienced CF programmer, you NEED this book at your workstation at ALL times! If you want to know how to integrate WDDx and XML, Delphi, CORBA, COM, DCOM, VB, ASP, C++ into CF, this is the place to go and the book to buy.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Allaire's ColdFusion evangelist?, October 15, 1999

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This review is from: Advanced Cold Fusion 4 Application Development (Paperback)

JJ Allaire - founder of Allaire Corporation - describes Ben Forta as their ColdFusion evangelist (guru/expert/sage). He certainly deserves the title as this book is proof of his knowledge and expertise with the ColdFusion platform.

If you are serious about ColdFusion development, hey - if you purchased the product you must be - this book is an essential reference. Although the documentation provided with the original software far exceeds what you would normally get from, say, Micro$oft, you still NEED this book.

Its a big book but it is not short on quality information with real life examples. It's the bible for ColdFusion 4.0 and then some.

Thanks to Ben's book I'm earning substantial commissions for my employer for developing CF sites. ColdFusion makes it easy. This book shows you how easy it really can be.

The custom tags provided on the enclosed CD-ROM are very useful (perhaps more for US customers than elsewhere) and add value to an already capital investment. Hide this one from fellow CF developers or you will never see it again!

Ideal for beginners and a very handy reference for expert users also.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The intention of the book is as the title says, October 4, 1999

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Jordan N. Clark (BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Cold Fusion 4 Application Development (Paperback)

Everyone in the ColdFusion community has always loved Ben Forta's prequel to this book, The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, but until now there has been no source for advanced CF training. All the developers were left to themselves to figure it out. Some people succeeded, while others found it too difficult, there was simply no general authority on what to do, or how to do it right.That has since changed, Ben Forta is litterly the backbone of the CF community and the reason for its success. Now, because of him, developers can simply buy this book after completing the first and have a very good understanding of the advanced features within ColdFusion. Or if you are already a successful CF developer buy this book to to use as a reference, its filled with useful tips and information on so many subjects you'll never put it down. It is always good to keep around for when you get stuck!