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Features

Great user experience

Printable web content

Dynamically transform existing HTML content into Adobe® PDF or Macromedia® FlashPaper® 2 format to produce print-quality output, including headers and footers, multiple page sizes, orientations, the ability to save output to disk or e-mail, and more.

Structured business reports

Use integrated business reporting to provide high-quality, structured reports otherwise possible only with expensive third-party reporting products. Users have unprecedented access to important business data in a format that is easily understood.

SWF forms and controls

Create and maintain rich, complex, multistep forms to provide users with easy-to-use, easy-to-understand forms. Use rich SWF controls not available in regular HTML such as data grids, tree controls, and calendars.

XML forms

Separate logic from presentation with the new CFFORM feature, allowing look and feel as well as complex form functionality to be easily shared, reused, and revised across sites.

Improved text searching

Use the latest version of the Verity full-text search engine now included in ColdFusion® MX 7. Powerful new features include hierarchical category searching, spelling correction suggestions, highlighted search results, and better search result data.

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Rapid development

Integrated NT domain authentication

Directly authenticate users in a Microsoft® Windows NT® domain using ColdFusion login tags.

Improved XML functionality

Now employ document type definition (DTD) and schema validation and XML decision functions.

Cross-site scripting attack prevention

Protect against cross-site scripting attacks using the new scriptProtect attribute of CFAPPLICATION.

Application event traps

Trap and respond to application, request, and session events.

Enhanced web services support

Enable applications to have full access to SOAP headers and more control over WSDL creation.

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Flexible deployment

Enterprise manager

Cluster and create multiple ColdFusion server instances on a single machine. Experience more secure, performance-optimized applications — without the additional hardware and software expense of separate physical servers.

EAR/WAR deployment

Deploy an application and the entire ColdFusion runtime as a standard Java™ archive (EAR or WAR file). Moving ColdFusion applications into production in J2EE environments has never been easier.

Sourceless deployment

Optionally omit unencrypted ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) source in ColdFusion applications packaged as J2EE archives, allowing applications to be redistributed and helping protect sensitive information.

Administrator API

Programmatically perform tasks, such as data source management, that previously required direct browser access to the ColdFusion Administrator.

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New classes of application development

Extensible gateway architecture

Create your own event gateways using the extensible gateway architecture. ColdFusion applications can now respond to events from a nearly limitless variety of emerging protocols.