Developing ColdFusion Applications

Chapter 11
Preventing and Handling Errors

ColdFusion includes many tools and techniques for ensuring that your code works properly. These tools include sophisticated debugging and code validation tools, error logging tools, and error handling mechanisms. This chapter describes these tools and presents approaches to troubleshooting common problems.

ColdFusion Studio also provides interfaces for debugging application pages and for dynamically validating multiple levels of HTML and CFML code. This chapter does not discuss debugging in ColdFusion Studio.

Contents

• Debug Settings in the ColdFusion Administrator
• CFML Code Validation
• Troubleshooting Common Problems
• Error Handling in ColdFusion
• Generating Custom Error Messages with cferror
• Logging Errors
• Handling Exceptions in ColdFusion

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