Enhancing ColdFusion MX Applications

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
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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 (hours)
3.5

Lesson 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