Adobe ColdFusion remains one of today's significant Web services tools and frameworks, and stands to become even more important as a possible primary tool for cloud development as well. As important as ColdFusion is and continues to become, we thought it would be a good idea to tap the leading authority on ColdFusion, the Fusion Authority. We asked this community to compile the most important issues in their developer and user experiences into one single volumean anthology of the most current technical articles published in the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update.

In it, you'll get the following: The best and brightest ColdFusion expertise available today, from inside and outside of Adobe The most up-to-date content with the latest releases of ColdFusion Case studies and instances where ColdFusion is used in cloud-based development

Rather than take a soup-to-nuts approach that covers every single topic, including those that most people have learned already, this book takes specific items of interest and explains them so that you can hit the ground running, rather than having to wait until you've read the entire book. What you'll learn Why ColdFusion is important for your Web Services and cloud application development How the latest versions of ColdFusion can build cloud applications How to integrate the latest ColdFusion has to offer with Flex and other Adobe tools in your workflow How to use ColdFusion in pragmatic ways through examples, illustrations, and case studies How to implement ColdFusion best practices, testing techniques, and more Who this book is for

This book is tailored for ColdFusion developers specifically, but many articles may be of use to general programmers as well. Table of Contents Working with ApplicationcfcApplicationcfc ReferenceFrom User-Defined Functions to ColdFusion ComponentsonMissingTemplate() Error Handler and So Much MoreSay What? Handling Unknown Messages with onMissingMethod()PDF Support in ColdFusionImage Processing in ColdFusionTuning Your Java Virtual Machine: Finding Your Ideal JVM Settings Through Metrics Log AnalysisThe Shoemaker and the Asynchronous Process ElvesAsynchronous Gateways Step-by-StepYou Might Have a Performance Bottleneck If...An Introduction to Consuming and Deploying Web Services in ColdFusionWeb Services and Complex TypesType Validation When Returning an Array of ComponentsSending E-mail the Right WayColdFusion and Microsoft ExchangeBlazeDSObject-Oriented Programming: Why Bother?The Object-Oriented LexiconDesign Patterns: Exposing the Service LayerBeans and DAOs and Gateways, Oh My SOA for the Rest of UsHow Base Classes Can Help You Generate Your ApplicationsAn Introduction to FrameworksFusebox 5 FundamentalsMach-II FundamentalsModel-Glue FundamentalsColdSpring FundamentalsReactor FundamentalsDeveloping Applications with TransferFW/1: The Invisible FrameworkSeparating Layout from LogicCreating Dynamic Presentations in ColdFusionWorking with JSON and cfajaxproxyPrototyping for Interface Driven Architecture: Easing the Transition from Prototype to ApplicationTurbo Charging EclipseAn Introduction to ColdFusion BuilderThe ColdFusion Debugger Explained: Interactive Step Debugging for ColdFusion 8 and 9Getting Started with SubversionSubversion in the WorkflowAdvanced SubversionAutomating Your Development with Ant