Moving to ColdFusion MX 8
2 days - € 995
Course Prerequisites
Prospective students should have taken the following courses or have equivalent development experience:
Fast Track to ColdFusion 7
Advanced ColdFusion 7
Course Objectives
- Develop more efficiently using Eclipse
- Speed up your development by using coding shortcuts and code generating wizards
- Manage and manipulate popular file formats including PDF, JPG, PNG, ZIP, RSS
- Easily build powerful AJAX applications
- Increase application responsiveness and track server load effectively
Course Outline
Unit 1: Introducing the Course
Prerequisites
5 minute highlight Reel of New Features
Unit 2: Developing with Eclipse
Installing Eclipse
Interesting Features for a CF Developer
Using the Wizards
Using the Interactive Debugger
Unit 3: Syntax Improvements
ArgumentsCollection
Implicit creation of arrays and structures
JavaScript operators in CFML Expressions
PrecisionEvaluate()
Unit 4: Improvements to the CFC Framework
404 Handling
Welcome File List
Unit 5: Working with PDF Files
Generate a PDF file using cfdocument
Generate a PDF file using the ColdFusion Report Builder
Generate a PDF file using cfreport
Manipulate PDF Files using cfpdf
Create Interactive PDF Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer
Manipulating LiveCycle Form Data with cfpdfForm
Parse data sent to ColdFusion from a LiveCycle Form
Unit 6: Improvements to File I/O and Transformations
Managing Files on the Server with , , and
Assembling multimedia presentations
Creating ZIP archives
Creating and Processing RSS/ATOM Feeds
Image Processing
Unit 7: Introduction to Creating AJAX applications with ColdFusion 8
Introduction to AJAX
Debugging AJAX Applications
User Interface Tags and Functions
Container Tags
Forms Tags
Menu Tags
User Assistance Tags
Binding Data to Form Fields
Submitting data in the background to a CFC
Unit 8: Performance and Scalability
Using CFTHREAD to create async processes
Server monitoring and configuration
