Adobe ColdFusion 10 Standard / Features

Work efficiently with PDF files and reduce the required code by directly adding images, watermarks, headers, and footers to your documents. Populate and extract data from PDF forms to collect data from application users and share information in a more secure environment.

Make your server more secure against cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery using functions to sanitize user input. Strengthen the authentication of applications using the enhanced login mechanism. Choose the new secure profile to enable default secure settings across the server.

Get notifications in ColdFusion Administrator, and save time installing updates with the one-click Hotfix installer.

Publish and access web services with less code using the revamped engine that supports the WSDL 2.0 specification, SOAP 1.2, and document literal wrapped style.

Achieve better scheduled task management using the new scheduler engine. Program tasks to run periodically at predetermined times using new, built-in cron syntax. Perform multiple tasks easily through grouping and prioritizing.

Read, create, and update spreadsheets using the CFSPREADSHEET tag. Generate PDF files from PowerPoint and Word files. Produce HTML or SWF files from PowerPoint presentations. Leverage enhanced support to work with Microsoft Office 2010 files.

Achieve better scheduled task management using the new scheduler engine. Program tasks to run periodically at predetermined times using new, built-in cron syntax. Perform multiple tasks easily through grouping and prioritizing.

Read, create, and update spreadsheets using the CFSPREADSHEET tag. Generate PDF files from PowerPoint and Word files. Produce HTML or SWF files from PowerPoint presentations. Leverage enhanced support to work with Microsoft Office 2010 files.

Build and manage database-independent applications using object relational mapping without writing any SQL. Use enhancements, such as stored procedure support and named SQL query, to achieve greater flexibility. Obtain enhanced debug information through SQL logging.

Boost performance by caching portions of pages with infrequently updated data, and improve custom handling of region-specific data by creating multiple cache regions on the fly. Improve server performance by sparing server resources through a parallel caching process.

Publish data to a maximum of five clients or execute a point-to-point data push with real-time server response. Leverage the support provided by the built-in functionality to instantly access HTML5 web sockets without prior knowledge of HTML5.

Experience enhanced performance from the built-in Tomcat application server that replaces Adobe® JRun™. With active and vast support from the developer community, Tomcat implements the latest web standards.

Easily publish your ColdFusion component as a Representational State Transfer (REST) web service with built-in support for all HTTP methods, along with JSON and XML serialization and de-serialization.

Leverage the rich experience provided by the built-in HTML5 video player, and benefit from interoperability with non-HTML5 browsers using the fallback to Adobe Flash Player. The revamped Flash Player with well-defined APIs helps ensure a consistent user experience across browsers.

Improve code quality and readability, along with better control and flexibility using closures.

Use tag-based CFML to rapidly build full-fledged applications with the enhanced scripting support for CFSCRIPT.

Offer users a more robust search capability. Use the CFCOLLECTION and CFSEARCH tags to index and search an unlimited number of documents quickly and conveniently.

Use the improved Microsoft® Exchange Web Services (EWS) to connect to Exchange Server 2010, and access server functionality with easy-to-use tags, such as folder operations, user availability, and conversation operations.

Leverage the bidirectional integration between Java and ColdFusion to dynamically load Java libraries from custom paths without a server restart. Invoke ColdFusion components (CFCs) from Java to access productivity-enhancing functionality, and create dynamic proxies for CFCs to be treated as Java objects.

Use the improved virtual file system to build applications with fewer I/O calls. Generate ColdFusion files dynamically, and execute them directly from memory, FTP, secure FTP, and ZIP or JAR files.