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In 1995 Allaire launched the ColdFusion Web Application Server. Since that launch, java has become an important language for the web, and Allaire has moved right along to combine the power of java with ColdFusion. On June 15, 1999, Allaire purchased JRun, giving them a powerful java server that currently supports java servlets and Enterprise JavaBeans. Allaire has a technology road map that will allow your CFML pages to execute directly on the next generation application server technology - a java engine code named Pharaoh. Right now you can develop applications in java and run them with your JRun engine, and develop ColdFusion applications in CFML and run them on the ColdFusion Web Application Server. But how do you use ColdFusion and java to-gether? Jeremy Allaire, in... (more)

Smart Tags

Microsoft invented a technology called Smart Tags. Smart Tags allow text to be marked up with actions, such as hyperlinks, when the text is displayed. They planned to introduce the technology with Windows XP. However, since public opinion was strongly against it, Microsoft decided to de-emphasize it. You can still create and use Smart Tags, but they're not prominent in Windows XP. This a... (more)

Allaire Technology Roadmap

This article describes Allaire's technology roadmap. Allaire started off with a single product, the ColdFusion Web application server. Now they have many products, and there's an increasingly strong relationship between them. Allaire is using a range of code names to refer to its products, and it can be difficult to remember which products are which and which code names refer to which re... (more)

The Flexibility of Nested Custom Tags

Saving development costs by reusing code has been a goal of the computing industry for a long time. With a little forethought you can save time and money developing Web systems using ColdFusion by encapsulating functionality in custom tags. This article describes how to nest custom tags (a working knowledge of these tags is assumed. If you need more information on paired custom tags, see ... (more)

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Picture yourself in a hotel lobby in Washington, DC, clutching a laptop bag and a suitcase, surrounded by about a hundred other people with similar luggage and appearance. You've just checked in, and you're flipping through the conference guide to get your bearings and making last-minute changes to your session choices. It's a vibrant atmosphere. Upstairs, the exhibition area is filled wi... (more)