Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development
3 days - € 1.690
Description
Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development provides ColdFusion application developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice that they need to build, maintain, and scale effective web applications. Topics include using the Application Framework, creating advanced queries, manipulating complex data in arrays and structures, structuring your code with ColdFusion Components, gracefully handling errors and exceptions, encapsulating your user-interface with custom tags, leveraging external Java code libraries, and creating highly interactive interfaces using Flash Forms. It includes optional content on exposing and reusing application functionality as web services and working with XML documents. This course focuses on creating and delivering scalable and well-performing applications.
Audience
This course is for developers with prior ColdFusion experience. To take this course, you should have:
- Completed the Fast Track to ColdFusion 8 course or have equivalent experience from building ColdFusion applications.
- Experience developing web applications using ColdFusion for at least three months after taking the Fast Track to ColdFusion 8 course.
- Practical experience using CFML tags, functions, and variables.
- Practical experience with the SQL command set, including SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE
Next step:
ColdFusion 8 Developer Exam
Course outline
Introducing the course
About the Course
Course Overview
Prerequistes
Course Format
Introduction to Components
Creating ColdFusion Components
Introducing CFC Syntax
Invoking Static CFC Methods
Using the Application Framework
Logging with
Locking Shared Scope Variables
Manipulating Lists and Queries
Creating Lists
Manipulating Lists with Functions
The Query Object
Summarizing and Grouping Data
Transaction Processing
Querying a Query
Uploading Data with
Manipulating Data with Arrays and Structures
Using Arrays
Manipulating Arrays with Functions
Using Structures
Manipulating Structures with Functions
Looping over Structures
Using Built-In ColdFusion Data Structures
Combining Data Structures
Copying Complex Variables with Duplicate()
Advanced Component Concepts
Instance-Based Components
Instantiating Instance-based Components
Associating Data with Components
Using the Getter/Setter Approach
Restricting Method Invocation
Restricting Component Methods by User Role
Using Built-In Components
Prototyping Components with
Handling Errors and Exceptions
Introducing Error Handling
Site-wide Error Handler
Application-Wide Error Handling
Implementing the try/catch Methodology
Exception Handling Frameworks
Code and Content Reuse
Creating Custom Tags
Calling Custom Tags
Creating CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags
.NET Integration with ColdFusion 8
Creating Web Services
Calling Web Services
Working with PDF Files and Forms
Generate PDF Files from ColdFusion
Manipulating PDF Files with
Pre-filling PDF Forms
Posting Data from a PDF Form to ColdFusion
Data and File Manipulation in ColdFusion
Manipulating Image Data with
Reading and Storing Image Data
Image Processing
Creating RSS Feeds
Consuming RSS Feeds
Scaling Applications
Caching Recordsets
Caching Generated Results with
Caching Entire Page Results
Using Asynchronous Processes to Improve Performance
