Buying guide
| Classes | Features | ColdFusion 10 Enterprise | ColdFusion 10 Standard | Advanced protocol support | Gateway architecture | Available | Restricted | Data management service | Available | Available | Data services messaging | Available | Available | Enterprise IM gateways (Sametime and XMPP) | Available | Restricted | Asynchronous CFML gateway | Available | Restricted | SMS gateway | Available | Restricted | JMS gateway | Available | Restricted | TCP/IP socket gateway | Available | Restricted | Directory watcher gateway | Available | Restricted | Application development | Object relational mapping (ORM) | Enhanced | Enhanced | ORM text search | New | Not available | Advanced caching (ehcache) | Enhanced | Enhanced | Ajax user interface component | Available | Available | Ajax framework | Available | Available | Image manipulation | Available | Available | RSS/Atom feed creation and consumption | Available | Available | ZIP and JAR archive file manipulation | Available | Available | Database introspection | Available | Available | Custom server side chart styles | Available | Available | Server-side charting and graphing | Available | Available | ColdFusion components (CFCs) | Enhanced | Enhanced | XML support | Available | Available | XPath support | New | New | Web services (SOAP) | Enhanced | Enhanced | Built-in support for REST | New | New | File manipulation | Available | Available | .NET assembly support (DLL) | Available | Available | Java™, servlet, and EJB connectivity | Available | Available | JDBC and ODBC | Available | Available | FTP/SFTP servers | Available | Available | Virtual file systems (RAM) | Enhanced | Enhanced | Virtual file systems (ZIP, JAR, FTP, SFTP) | New | New | * Multi-threaded CFML1 (CFTHREAD) | Available | Restricted | Database client connection management | New | New | Support for additional database types | New | New | Database exception handling | Enhanced | Enhanced | Failover support for database | New | New | Revamped scheduler engine | New | New | Grouping of scheduled tasks | New | New | Misfire and exception handling of scheduled tasks | New | Not available | Scheduled task priority | New | New | Listeners for scheduled tasks | New | Not available | Cluster support for scheduled tasks | New | Not available | Chaining of scheduled tasks | New | Not available | Application-specific scheduled tasks | New | Not available | Support for closures | New | New | CFC Auto constructor | New | New | CFC method chaining | New | New | For-in support for queries and lists | New | New | Hotfix installer | New | New | Instant notification of updates in CF Administrator | New | New | CFScript support | Enhanced | Enhanced | Flex and AIR lazy loading | New | New | Document services | MS Office 2010 PowerPoint file generation | New | Restricted | PDF file conversion from MS Office 2010 Word and PowerPoint | New | Restricted | MS Office 2010 Excel support | New | Restricted | PDF form processing | Available | Restricted | PDF document manipulation | Available | Restricted | Server-side printing | Available | Restricted | Online presentation generation | Available | Restricted | PDF file generation from HTML | Available | Restricted | Structured reporting | Available | Restricted | Enterprise infrastructure | 64-bit support | Available | Available | Administrative user and role management | Available | Not available | Request limit management | Available | Not available | Operating system virtualization support2 | Available | Not available | High-scalability email engine | Available | Not available | Web-based multi-instance manager | Enhanced | Not available | Web-based cluster manager | Available | Not available | JEE package deployment (EAR/WAR) | Available | Not available | Multiple server instances | Enhanced | Not available | Instance clustering | Available | Not available | Enterprise database drivers | Available | Not available | ColdFusion archiving and deployment (CAR) | Available | Not available | HTML5 | HTML5 charts | New | Not available | Built-in HTML5 video player | New | New | Fallback from HTML5 to Adobe Flash® and vice versa | New | New | Skinning support for HTML5 video player | New | New | Support for events and JavaScript interface for HTML5 video player | New | New | Geo-location capability with CFMAP | New | New | Support for HTML5 input types | New | New | ** Support for web socket protocol on server3 | New | Restricted | ** Interface for publish and subscribe using web socket | New | Restricted | Custom styles for HTML5 charts | New | Not available | Integrated solutions | Embedded Apache Solr full-text search engine | Enhanced | Enhanced | Support for dynamic custom fields for Solr | New | New | Data import handler for Solr | New | Not available | Adobe LiveCycle® Data Services ES integration | Available | Available | Eclipse™ based debugging | Available | Available | Flash Remoting | Available | Available | Adobe Dreamweaver® and Eclipse extensions | Enhanced | Enhanced | User-defined functions | Available | Available | Microsoft SharePoint web parts | Available | Available | Microsoft SharePoint single sign-on | Available | Available | Java portal integration (JSR-168, JSR-286, WSRP) | Available | Available | Email servers (POP and IMAP) | Available | Available | Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010 | New | New | Microsoft Exchange Server integration | Enhanced | Restricted | Directory servers (Active Directory and LDAP) | Available | Available | Apache Tomcat integration | New | New | Revamped Adobe Flash Player | New | New | Bidirectional Java integration | New | New | Loading Java classes from custom paths | New | New | Creation of Java dynamic proxies from CFCs | New | New | Invoking CFCs from Java classes | Enhanced | Enhanced | Tight integration with Adobe ColdFusion Builder™ | Enhanced | Enhanced | Security | Windows NT® domain authentication | Available | Available | RSA FIPS 140–compliant strong cryptology | Available | Not available | Enterprise server security (sandboxing) | Available | Not available | Built-in functions to protect against XSS and CSRF | New | New | Login mechanism | Enhanced | Enhanced | Session cookie management | Enhanced | Enhanced | Server manager and monitor | Desktop-based server manager | Enhanced | Not available | Web-based server administration | Enhanced | Enhanced | Administrator API | Enhanced | Enhanced | Compiled application deployment (source-less) | Available | Available | Server monitoring dashboard | Enhanced | Enhanced | Server monitoring API | Enhanced | Not available | * CFTHREAD is limited to two additional spawned threads in Standard edition | ** Data can be pushed to no more than five clients on Standard, unlimited on Enterprise | # Restricted features in ColdFusion Standard Edition: Enterprise features run through the Enterprise Feature Router (EFR). These features run in the Standard edition. However, all features running through the EFR are limited to one shared simultaneous request. |
