Advanced ColdFusion 10 Development

3-Day Live Class
10AM - 5PM

Advanced ColdFusion 10 Development provides ColdFusion application developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice that they need to build, maintain, and scale effective web applications. Topics include using the Application Framework, creating advanced queries, manipulating complex data in arrays and structures, structuring your code with ColdFusion Components, gracefully handling errors and exceptions, encapsulating your user-interface with custom tags, leveraging external Java code libraries, and creating highly interactive interfaces using Flash Forms. It includes optional content on exposing and reusing application functionality as web services and working with XML documents. This course focuses on creating and delivering scalable and well-performing applications.

Who Should Attend?

Web development professionals who are experienced with ColdFusion and want to learn advanced development techniques.

Prerequisites:

To gain the most from the class, you should already have:

Fast Track to ColdFusion 10 or equivalent experience
Practical experience using CFML tags, functions and variables.
Practical experience with the SQL command set, including SELECT, INSERT and UPDATE

Upcoming Course Dates

Advanced ColdFusion 10 Development | Starts on 05/17/2023

$1,195.00

Advanced ColdFusion 10 Development | Starts on 08/16/2023

$1,195.00

Course Outline

Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. At his/her discretion, the instructor may adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Lesson 1: Introduction to Components

Creating ColdFusion Components (CFC)
CFC Syntax
Invoking Static CFC Methods
Using the Application Framework
Configuring Application Settings
Handling Application Events
Handling Request Events
Locking Shared Scope Variables
Handling Session Events

Lesson 2: Manipulating Lists and Queries

Using Lists
The Query Object
Summarizing Group Data
Transaction Processing
Querying a Query

Lesson 3: Manipulating Data and Arrays with Structures

Using Arrays
Using Structures
Using Built-In ColdFusion Data Structures
Dynamically Evaluating Variables
Combining Data Structures
Accessing Data by Value or Reference

Lesson 4: Advanced Component Concepts

Instance-Based Components
Creating Dynamic Getter/Setter Proxies with onMissingMethod
Using Built-In Components
Prototyping Components with cfinterface

Lesson 5: Handling Errors and Exceptions

Error Handling
Customizing Application Error Messages
Application-Wide Error Handling
Handling Exceptions with Try/Catch
Exception Handling Frameworks

Lesson 6: Code and Content Reuse

Creating Custom Tags
Using Custom Tag Attributes
Setting Results on the Calling Page
Calling Custom Tags
Creating CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags
.NET Integration with ColdFusion 10
Creating Web Services
Calling Web Services

Lesson 7: Working with PDF Files and Forms

Generate PDF Files from ColdFusion
Manipulating PDF Files with cfpdf
Pre-filling PDF Forms
Posting Data from a PDF Form to ColdFusion

Lesson 8: Data and File Manipulation in ColdFusion 10

Manipulating Image Data with cfimage
Reading and Storing Image Data
Image Processing
Creating RSS Feeds
Consuming RSS with CFFEED

Lesson 9: Scaling Applications

Scalability Bottlenecks
Caching Recordsets
Caching Generated Results with cf_accelerate
Caching Entire Page Results
Using Asynchronous Process to Improve Performance