IMPORTANT: This title is no longer current and has been replaced by: ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit Volume 3: Advanced Application Development

Description: This is the revised sequel to my ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit.

Co-authored by some of the most respected ColdFusion programmers, all of whom have gained their real-world ColdFusion experience the hard way, this book is the only place you'll find extensive coverage of advanced ColdFusion application development, including all the new ColdFusion 5 features.

Here's a partial list of what you'll find in this new book: writing scalable applications, implementing fault-tolerance and load-balancing technologies, monitoring and fine-tuning system performance, creating secure applications, deploying server sandbox security, integration with NOS security, writing language extensions in CFML, C/C++, COM, DCOM, and CORBA integration, XML use, and user defined functions, structured error handling, implementing distributed processing and intelligent agents, scripting and customizing the ColdFusion Studio development environment, sophisticated regular-expressions processing, internationalization and localization, and much much more!

I hope you find this new book to be a valuable ColdFusion resource. And if you are new to ColdFusion, or are looking for a general ColdFusion tutorial or reference book, be sure to check out my other ColdFusion book, ColdFusion 5 Web Application Construction Kit, ISBN 0789725843.

On behalf of myself, the contributing authors, and the publisher, good luck with ColdFusion, and happy coding!

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Chapter listing:

• - Introduction
• 1 - Understanding High Availability
• 2 - Monitoring System Performance
• 3 - Different Ways to Scale
• 4 - Software Based Load Balancing
• 5 - Hardware Based Load Balancing
• 6 - Managing Session State in Clusters
• 7 - Understanding Security
• 8 - ColdFusion Security Options
• 9 - Implementing Advanced Security
• 10 - Security in Shared and Hosted Environments
• 11 - ColdFusion Scripting
• 12 - Using Regular Expressions
• 13 - Creating Intelligent Agents
• 14 - XML Development
• 15 - Using WDDX
• 16 - Interacting with Directory Services
• 17 - Internationalization and Localization
• 18 - Creating Advanced Custom Tags
• 19 - Creating User Defined Functions
• 20 - Extending ColdFusion with COM
• 21 - Extending ColdFusion with CORBA
• 22 - Extending ColdFusion with Java
• 23 - Extending ColdFusion with CFX
• 24 - Writing ColdFusion Studio Tag Extensions
• 25 - Scripting ColdFusion Studio
• Appendix A - VTML and WIZML Language Reference
• Appendix B - ColdFusion Studio Object Model Reference
• Appendix C - The WDDX DTD

• AdvancedCF.zip