Enhancing ColdFusion MX Applications

Overview/Description
To describe how to enhance ColdFusion MX applications by adding error-handling, search, and data-exchange functionalities to them

Target Audience
Existing ColdFusion 5 users wishing to gain experience in advanced ColdFusion MX development; web and enterprise application developers who have had an introduction to ColdFusion development and wish to learn advanced development techniques

Prerequisites
The Macromedia ColdFusion MX: Foundation learning path or equivalent experience; at least three months' experience developing and deploying ColdFusion web applications; practical experience of SQL data manipulation commands, including SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE

Expected Duration
210 Minutes

Objectives:

Enhancing ColdFusion MX Applications

  • use simple error handling in a ColdFusion MX application.
  • use the Try/Catch methodology to handle errors in a ColdFusion MX application.
  • describe some strategies for handling errors in ColdFusion MX applications.
  • handle database exceptions in a ColdFusion MX application.
  • describe how Verity works and use it to index and search documents.
  • use Verity to index and search query recordsets in ColdFusion MX.
  • describe how ColdFusion MX can be used to exchange Internet data, and use the CFHTTP tag to retrieve data.
  • use the CFHTTP tag to retrieve WDDX packets in ColdFusion MX.
  • describe how XML works in ColdFusion MX, and use ColdFusion MX to create an XML document.
  • create, search, and work with XML document objects in ColdFusion MX.
  • publish and consume web services in ColdFusion MX.


    • Course Number: 80780_eng