Buying Guide
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ColdFusion Standard (2016 Release) |
ColdFusion 11 Standard |
ColdFusion 10 Standard |
ColdFusion 9 Standard |
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Document services |
PDF archiving |
✓ |
✓ |
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PDF redaction |
✓ |
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PDF sanitization |
✓ |
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Exchange comments across files |
✓ |
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Standardized PDF metadata |
✓ |
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PDF attachments |
✓ |
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PDF stamp support |
✓ |
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Microsoft Office 2010 PowerPoint file generation |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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PDF file conversion from Microsoft Office 2010 Word and PowerPoint |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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MS Office 2010 Excel support |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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PDF form processing |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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PDF document manipulation |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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Server-side printing |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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Online presentation generation |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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PDF file generation from HTML |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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Structured reporting |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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Mobile development |
Client-side database integration |
✓ |
✓ |
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CFML-based mobile app development |
✓ |
✓ |
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Device detection |
✓ |
✓ |
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Native device APIs |
✓ |
✓ |
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On—device debugging |
✓ |
✓ |
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Remote inspection |
✓ |
✓ |
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Client-side database access |
✓ |
✓ |
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Custom tag framework |
✓ |
✓ |
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Application Development |
Full CFSCRIPT support |
✓ |
✓ |
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Command line interface |
✓ |
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Member functions |
✓ |
✓ |
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QueryExecute and Elvis operator |
✓ |
✓ |
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Social login support and social plug-in integration |
✓ |
✓ |
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Custom serializer and de-serializer for JSON and XML |
✓ |
✓ |
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Object-relational mapping (ORM) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Advanced caching (ehcache) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Ajax UI component |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Ajax framework |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Image manipulation |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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RSSand atom feed creation and consumption |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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ZIP and JAR archive file manipulation |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Database introspection |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Custom server-side chart styles |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Server-side charting and graphing |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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ColdFusion components (CFCs) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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XML support |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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XPath support |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Web services (SOAP) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Built-in support for REST |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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File manipulation |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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.NET assembly support (DLL) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Java, servlet, and EJB connectivity |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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JDBC and ODBC |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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FTP and SFTP servers |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Virtual file systems (RAM) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Virtual file systems (ZIP, JAR, FTP, SFTP) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Multi-threaded CFML1(CFTHREAD) |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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Database client connection management |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Support for additional database types |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Database exception handling |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Failover support for database |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Revamped scheduler engine |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Grouping of scheduled tasks |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Scheduled task priority |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Support for closures |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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CFC auto constructor |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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CFC method chaining |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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For-in support for queries and lists |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Hotfix installer |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Instant notification for updates in ColdFusion Administrator |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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CFScript support |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Flex and Adobe AIR lazy loading |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Advanced protocol support |
Gateway architecture |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Data management service |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Data services messaging |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Enterprise IM gateways (Sametime and XMPP) |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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Asynchronous CFML gateway |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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SMS gateway |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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JMS gateway |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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TCP/IP socket gateway |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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Directory watcher gateway |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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Enterprise |
64-bit support |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Port80 support for HTML5 web sockets |
✓ |
✓ |
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SSLv3 support for HTML web sockets |
✓ |
✓ |
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HTML5 charts |
✓ |
✓ |
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Built-in HTML5 videoplayer |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Fall back from HTML5 to Adobe Flash technology and vice versa |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Skinning support for HTML5 videoplayer |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Support for events and JavaScript interface for HTML5 videoplayer |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Geo-location capability with CFMAP |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Suport for HTML5 input types |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Support for websocket protocol on server |
✓ |
✓ |
Restricted functionality |
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Interface for publish and subscribe using web socket |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
Restricted functionality |
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Custom styles for HTML5 charts |
✓ |
✓ |
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Integrated solutions |
Embedded Apache Solr full-text search engine |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES integration |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Eclipse based debugging |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Flash remoting |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Adobe Dreamweaver and Eclipse extensions |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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User-defined functions |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Microsoft SharePoint web parts |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Microsoft SharePoint single sign-on |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Java portal integration (JSR-168, JSR-286, WSRP) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Email servers (POP and IMAP) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010 |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Microsoft Exchange server integration |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Restricted functionality |
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Directory servers (Active Directory and LDAP) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Apache Tomcat integration |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Revamped Adobe Flash videoplayer |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Bidirectional Java integration |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Java classes loaded from custom paths |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Java dynamic proxies from CFCs |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Ability to invoke CFCs from Java classes |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Tight integration with ColdFusion Builder |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Security |
Windows NT domain authentication |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Built-in functions to protect against XSS and CSRF |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Login mechanism |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Session cookie management |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Server manager and monitor |
Desktop-based server manager |
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Web-based server administration |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Administrator API |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Compiled application deployment (sourceless) |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
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Server monitoring dashboard |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |