Adobe® ColdFusion® 9 software is available for purchase in two editions — Standard or Enterprise — both of which include the entire infrastructure necessary to build and deploy ColdFusion applications. Also available are two free editions — Developer and Trial — which are full-featured but provide only limited deployment capabilities. At any time, full commercial deployment capabilities for an existing Trial or Developer edition installation can be activated by simply inserting a valid serial number for ColdFusion 9 Standard or ColdFusion 9 Enterprise without the need to reinstall.
Learn more about the ColdFusion 9 editions:
- ColdFusion 9 Enterprise edition
- ColdFusion 9 Standard edition
- ColdFusion 9 Developer edition
- ColdFusion 9 Trial edition
Edition comparison overview for ColdFusion 9
This matrix provides an overview of key differences between the various editions of ColdFusion 9. A complete comparison of features by edition is available in the feature comparison matrix (PDF, 273k).
Application development and infrastructure services
| ColdFusion 9 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Enterprise and Developer Editions | Standard Edition | |
| Application development and infrastructure services | Ajax user interface components |
yes | yes |
Ajax framework |
yes | yes | |
Object-relational mapping (ORM) |
yes | yes | |
Advanced caching (ehcache) |
yes | yes | |
Adobe LiveCycle® Data Services ES integration |
yes | yes | |
Image manipulation |
yes | yes | |
RSS/Atom feed creation and consumption |
yes | yes | |
Eclipse™ based debugging |
yes | yes | |
ZIP and JAR archive file manipulation |
yes | yes | |
Database introspection |
yes | yes | |
Custom chart styles |
yes | yes | |
Adobe Flash® based forms |
yes | yes | |
Flash Remoting |
yes | yes | |
XML forms |
yes | yes | |
Adobe Dreamweaver® and Eclipse extensions |
yes | yes | |
Embedded Verity full-text search engine |
yes | yes | |
Embedded Apache Lucene Solr full-text search engine |
yes | yes | |
Charting and graphing |
yes | yes | |
Application events (Application.cfc) |
yes | yes | |
ColdFusion components (CFCs) |
yes | yes | |
XML support |
yes | yes | |
Web services (SOAP and REST) |
yes | yes | |
File manipulation |
yes | yes | |
Database transaction management |
yes | yes | |
User-defined functions |
yes | yes | |
In-memory SQL (query or queries) |
yes | yes | |
Dynamic e-mail |
yes | yes | |
Information management
| ColdFusion 9 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Enterprise and Developer Editions | Standard Edition | |
| Information management | .NET assembly support (.DLL) |
yes | yes |
Windows NT® domain authentication |
yes | yes | |
Microsoft Exchange Server integration |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Microsoft SharePoint web parts |
yes | yes | |
Microsoft SharePoint single sign-on |
yes | yes | |
Directory servers (Active Directory and LDAP) |
yes | yes | |
Java™, servlet, and EJB connectivity |
yes | yes | |
Java portal integration (JSR 168, JSR 286, WSRP) |
yes | yes | |
JDBC and ODBC |
yes | yes | |
FTP/SFTP servers |
yes | yes | |
COM connectivity |
yes | yes | |
CORBA object connectivity |
yes | yes | |
E-mail servers (POP and IMAP) |
yes | yes | |
Server management
| ColdFusion 9 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Enterprise and Developer Editions | Standard Edition | |
| Server management | Web-based server administration |
yes | yes |
Administrator API |
yes | yes | |
Desktop-based Server Manager |
yes | yes | |
Compiled application deployment (sourceless) |
yes | yes | |
Document services
| ColdFusion 9 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Enterprise and Developer Editions | Standard Edition | |
| Document services | PDF form processing |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
PDF document manipulation |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Server-side printing |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Online presentation generation |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Microsoft PowerPoint file generation |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
PDF file conversion from Microsoft Word and PowerPoint |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Microsoft Excel support |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
PDF file generation from HTML |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Adobe FlashPaper® document generation |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Structure reporting |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Enterprise programming
| ColdFusion 9 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Enterprise and Developer Editions | Standard Edition | |
| Enterprise programming | Multi-threaded CFML (CFTHREAD) |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
Virtual file systems (RAM) |
yes | yes | |
Advanced protocol support
| ColdFusion 9 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Enterprise and Developer Editions | Standard Edition | |
| Advanced protocol support | Gateway architecture |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
Data management service |
yes | no | |
Data services messaging |
yes | no | |
Enterprise IM gateways (Sametime and XMPP) |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Asynchronous CFML gateway |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
SMS gateway |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
JMS gateway |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
TCP/IP socket gateway |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Directory Watcher gateway |
yes | Enterprise Feature Router |
|
Enterprise infrastructure
| ColdFusion 9 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Features | Enterprise and Developer Editions | Standard Edition | |
| Enterprise infrastructure | Server monitoring dashboard |
yes | no |
Server monitoring API |
yes | no | |
64-bit support |
yes | yes | |
Administrative user and role management |
yes | no | |
Request limit management |
yes | no | |
Operating system virtualization support |
yes | no | |
RSA FIPS 140–complaint strong cryptology |
yes | no | |
High-scalability e-mail engine |
yes | no | |
Web-based multi-instance manager |
yes | no | |
Web-based cluster manager |
yes | no | |
JEE package deployment (EAR/WAR) |
yes | no | |
Multiple server instances |
yes | no | |
Instance clustering |
yes | no | |
Enterprise database drivers |
yes | no | |
Full J2EE server included (Adobe Jrun™) |
yes | no | |
ColdFusion archiving and deployment (CAR) |
yes | no | |
Enterprise server security (sandboxing) |
yes | no | |
Enterprise edition
The solution for delivering high-performing websites and applications in a clustered or virtualized environment, ColdFusion 9 Enterprise provides all the capabilities of ColdFusion Standard plus additional features for creating enterprise-ready applications.
Purchase ColdFusion 9 Enterprise edition
Standard edition
Ideal for delivering a robust website or application on a single server, ColdFusion 9 Standard provides powerful development capabilities in an easy-to-manage configuration.
Purchase ColdFusion 9 Standard edition
Developer edition
ColdFusion 9 Developer is a free, fully functional version of ColdFusion for local development of applications that will be deployed on either Standard or Enterprise servers. In addition to localhost, applications running on a Developer Edition server can be accessed from two remote IP addresses, making team development even easier.
Download ColdFusion 9 Developer edition
If you are an independent developer, you can work with a third-party hosting partner to deploy your ColdFusion application.
Learn more about ColdFusion for independent developers
Trial edition
For evaluating ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, we offer a free 30-day trial. This is a fully functional server that includes all the features of ColdFusion 9 Enterprise. At the end of the 30-day trial, the Trial edition automatically becomes the Developer edition. At any time, full commercial deployment capabilities for an existing Trial or Developer edition installation can be activated by simply inserting a valid serial number for ColdFusion 9 Standard or ColdFusion 9 Enterprise without the need to reinstall.
Download ColdFusion 9 Trial edition
