Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development [Paperback]

Ben Forta (Author), et al (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0321292693 | ISBN-13: 978-0321292698 | Edition: 1

With a slew of advanced new features, ColdFusion MX 7 represents both an opportunity and a challenge for those developing Web apps with it. The opportunity, of course, lies in taking their applications to new and increasingly sophisticated levels. The challenge is digging deep enough into ColdFusion to discover the features and techniques that will take them there. In these pages Ben Forta and the Macromedia team have made this information not only accessible but also easily digestible for intermediate and advanced ColdFusion developers. Users won’t want to waste any time before getting down to the serious business of unraveling ColdFusion’s new features so that they can use Structured Business Reports to deliver business data in an understandable format; deploy the ColdFusion language in mobile phones and instant messaging clients; build rich, multistep data-entry forms; use Enterprise Manager to cluster multiple ColdFusion servers on a single machine; and more. Through step-by-step instructions and real-world examples, you’ll learn how to do everything from create secure applications to employ Java components.

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About the Author

Ben Forta is Senior Technical Evangelist for Macromedia, Inc., and one of the best-known and most trusted names in the ColdFusion community. With more than two decades of experience in the computer industry, Ben is a much sought after speaker and lecturer. Ben is the author of this book’s popular beginning-to-intermediate companion volume, Macromedia ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, as well as books on SQL, JSP (JavaServer Pages), WAP, and other technologies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1024 pages
• Publisher: Macromedia Press; 1 edition (May 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321292693
• ISBN-13: 978-0321292698
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,003,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.

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40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A must have companion to WACK, May 16, 2005

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R. Orchard "red2scarlett" (St. Louis, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development (Paperback)

For those of you who already own Ben's "Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Web Application Construction Kit" (WACK), this is a must-have companion for die-hard CF7 developers.

Instead of touching on topics like WACK, this book dives in depth into some pretty hefty issues such as advanced CFCs, CF7s new gateway feature, using XML & XSLT with CF, performance tweaking your CF server and more.

DO NOT buy this book as a sole resource for CF7. This book is intended for advanced ColdFusion use as the title states. If you're new to CF, buy WACK... it's an extremely thorough step by step guide and will also turn into an excellent reference tool. If you're just looking for a CF desk reference/companion, get O'Reilly's "Programming ColdFusion MX" (which doesn't really teach you too well, but is much better than WACK for just flipping to a page and finding what you want). Bear in mind that as of 05/17/2005 O'Reilly doesn't "have any plans currently for a new edition of that book" (quote from an e-mail I received from O'Reilly)... so get WACK7 if you really must have something on CF7's new features.

The only thing preventing me from giving the book 5 stars is the fact that much of the content in this book is identical to what was available in the previous edition. However, the new CF7 content is invaluable and the book does contain an abundant wealth of new and useful information.

If you're an advanced ColdFusion user (use CFCs, Custom Tags, UDFs, use clustering, want to further secure your CF app., integrate your app with C++/Java/.NET (no C#),etc. in your applications), you need this book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, May 17, 2007

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R. Stevens (Georgia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development (Paperback)

This is a great book, but you should go to Mr. Forta's site to see all the corrections that have been made.

Otherwise, this book is great like all the rest of his books.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A weighty and thorough instruction on all of ColdFusion's advanced features, July 5, 2005

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development (Paperback)

Written by programmers for programmers, Ben Forta's sequel to his prior Macromedia Coldfusion Mx 7 Web Application Construction Kit provides a weighty and thorough instruction on all of ColdFusion's advanced features. From clustering solutions and building and integrating secure applications to understanding different security systems and extending ColdFusion capabilities with COM., C/C++ and more, nearly a thousand pages pack in extensive technical details and discussions of related technologies for maximum benefit.