Mohyeddin Abdulaziz
Director of Information Technology
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
abdulaziz@law.arizona.edu
- Introduction (Internet, Intranet, Extranet)
- Ubiquitous global network.
- We're all connected! Individuals, colleges, campuses, the world!
- Made possible by TCP/IP
- Built on standards established by organizations such as the W3C
- interoperability, open computing, extensibility
- Universal user interface - the browser
- easy to use graphical interface
- everyone knows how to use it
- use it as an application interface - reduce cost of deployment, training and maintenance.
- What is ColdFusion?
- A new breed of applications
- web-based
- server-centric
- delivered in a browser
- access to backend databases, messaging systems, directories, .....
- used for both business applications and for dynamic information publishing
- Components
- CF web application server
- CF Studio
- CF Administrator
- CF Extensions (open XML-based framework)
- Database connectivity - supports connectivity thru
- ODBC
- OLE DB
- Native database drivers
- Internet technology integration
- tightly integrated with other Internet technologies & protocols (email, directories, object middleware (COM, CORBA, EJB)
- How does it work?
Administrator
CF server administratorCFML