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What is Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7?
ColdFusion MX 7 makes Internet application development and deployment faster and easier than any other solution available today. Easily extend or integrate with Java or .NET applications, connect to enterprise data and applications, create or consume web services, or interface with SMS on mobile devices or instant messaging clients. Add powerful application services for business reporting, rich-forms generation, printable document generation, full-text search, and graphing and charting.
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Is ColdFusion MX 7 the upgrade from ColdFusion MX 6.1?
Yes, ColdFusion MX 7 is the latest release of ColdFusion. Upgrading from MX 6.1 is fast and easy.
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What is MX?
Macromedia use "MX" to identify the new products that are part of the Macromedia MX product family. Each product that bears the MX mark is major new version. Together, the Macromedia MX products make it possible to build a new generation of Internet solutions.
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What are the major features of ColdFusion MX 7?
    This release is packed with new features. Some of the more powerful new features include:
  • Structured business reports: Integrated business reporting provides high-quality, structured reports, otherwise possible only using expensive, third-party reporting products. Users will have unprecedented access to important business data in a format that is easily understood.
  • Printable web content: Dynamically transform any web content to PDF or FlashPaper 2 format using the new CFDOCUMENT tag. Produce print-quality output—including headers and footers, multiple page sizes, and orientations—save output to disk or e-mail, and more.
  • Rich forms: Build accessible, high-quality forms in minutes using the new Rich Flash forms capabilities. Use familiar CFML tags to easily create complex, multistep forms and re-skin forms across applications.
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What is ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)?
ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) is the tag-based server-scripting language for rapid web development. Processed entirely on the server, CFML is easy to learn, yet powerful enough to handle the most demanding web-application logic. CFML uses a syntax that closely resembles HTML and XML, so it is ideally suited to programming applications that use these markup languages. For new developers, tag-based CFML syntax makes complex programming easy. Advanced developers can easily extend and customize CFML through custom tags, reusable components, and user-defined functions, as well as take advantage of structured exception handling and integration with Java, C, C++, COM, CORBA, and EJB. ColdFusion MX 7 boosts CFML with an array of powerful new and extended tags.
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Who should use ColdFusion MX 7?
ColdFusion MX is designed for developers building dynamic websites and Internet applications. Easy-to-use visual tools and an intuitive server scripting environment dramatically shorten the learning curve for new developers. At the same time, advanced features such as ColdFusion components, integrated debugging, XML handling, Java integration, web services, and the extensible event gateway architecture make ColdFusion ideal for developers creating complex web applications and applications that need to be accessible from mobile devices.
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How does ColdFusion MX 7 work with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX?
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 provides a compelling development environment for building and testing ColdFusion applications. ColdFusion MX 7 provides new extensions for Dreamweaver MX 2004 to facilitate ColdFusion development, including integrated data source management, CFFORM design support, ColdFusion component recordsets, powerful login wizard, and more. Used together, Dreamweaver and ColdFusion provide an efficient, rapid development environment for building powerful web applications.
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How does ColdFusion MX 7 work with Macromedia Flash MX?
In addition to the powerful Flash Remoting capabilities already available in ColdFusion MX, ColdFusion MX 7 adds the ability to easily create rich Flash forms, solving complex, multistep forms problems. HTML form maintenance is a time-consuming and tedious task, but creating Flash forms is fast and intuitive for a ColdFusion developer. New Flash form controls (not available in regular HTML)—such as data grids, tree controls, and calendars—are also available in ColdFusion MX 7 and can easily be used within the CFFORM tag to add rich controls to your applications.
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Is ColdFusion MX 7 backwards-compatible with previous releases of ColdFusion?
ColdFusion MX 6.1 applications should seamlessly migrate to ColdFusion MX 7. Most ColdFusion 5 applications can also be migrated easily to ColdFusion MX 7. To assist customers in making the move from ColdFusion 5 to ColdFusion MX products, Macromedia provides a migration resource center that includes all the tools you need to plan a successful migration. The ColdFusion MX documentation includes a full report on known compatibility issues between ColdFusion 5 and ColdFusion MX. This same guide applies to applications that are being migrated from ColdFusion 5 to ColdFusion MX 7. In addition, ColdFusion MX includes a Code Compatibility Analyzer that enables ColdFusion developers to identify areas of their current applications quickly that may require tweaking to run on ColdFusion MX or MX 7. These tools and other resources can be found in the ColdFusion MX Migration Resources.
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