Book VI 1 in Java

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Dreamweaver MX 2004 has been specially designed to make writing ColdFusion pages easier The great thing about Dreamweaver is its ability to flip back and forth between Code view and Design view: Design view: Enables you to see a visual representation of your page, just like it would appear in a Web browser Code view: Gives you direct control over the code If you ve used previous versions of ColdFusion Studio or HomeSite (the HTML editor that is part of previous versions of ColdFusion), you may notice that the Code view in Dreamweaver looks similar to those products Split Screen mode: Displays both the code and the graphical representation on your screen, as shown in Figure 1-7 When you re using Code view, many features are available to you that are made specifically for ColdFusion development: CFML toolbars CFML function auto-complete CFML validation

Code view that works similarly to previous versions of HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio Debugging commands ColdFusion server connection Drag-and-drop components Database access These features are covered in more detail in Book II, 6

Understanding the ColdFusion Administrator Creating data sources Configuring an e-mail server Logging events on the Application Server Using debugging options

efore you begin writing code for your Web application, familiarize yourself with the ColdFusion server If you re running your own server, you have the ability to set things up just the way you want Even if you re using a preconfigured server at your Internet service provider (ISP), you want to know how the server is configured to aid in your development process This chapter walks you through a few important tasks that are accomplished in the ColdFusion Administrator

The ColdFusion Administrator is a Web application that helps the human administrator manage the server by controlling a wide array of server settings Although several of the server settings are aimed at giving the developer important information to assist in the writing of ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) pages, the ColdFusion Administrator does not create CFML pages Many of the tasks in the ColdFusion Administrator are directly related to tasks that a ColdFusion developer carries out For example, a developer cannot query a database if the database is not registered as an active data source through the Administrator After a server is configured properly with the ColdFusion Administrator, the CFML developer can create a Web application that uses the many features of the application server

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Creates Web pages to send e-mail Adds, edits, and deletes information in databases Uses CFML to perform searches on documents and databases Outputs all the queries, variables, and processes at the bottom of the rendered ColdFusion page so that developers can monitor and fix their code Creates Web services A Web service is a bridge from your application server to another server with an application that you want to be able to access from within your application This is a new feature to ColdFusion

Configures the e-mail server Sets up data sources (connections to databases) Sets up search collections Sets up debugging options

Before you can work with any of the administrative tools in ColdFusion Administrator, you must first log on, which is a two-step process:

Because the Administrator is a Web application, you access it with your browser The default URL of the logon page is http://servername/ cfide/Administrator/indexcfm, where servername is the Internet Protocol (IP) number or fully qualified domain name of your server If you re using the ColdFusion Web server, it uses port 8500, so the URL becomes http://localhost:8500/cfide/Administrator/ indexcfm When you enter this URL, the logon screen appears, as shown in Figure 2-1