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Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Development is a three-day course that provides ColdFusion application developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice 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.
Audience
This course is for developers with prior ColdFusion experience. To take this course, you should have:
Completed the Fast Track to ColdFusion MX 7 course, or other equivalent experience building ColdFusion applications.
Experience developing web applications using ColdFusion for at least three months upon completion of the Fast Track to ColdFusion MX 7 course.
Practical experience using CFML tags, functions, and variables.
Practical experience with the SQL command set, including SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE.
Course Outline
Unit 1: Introducing the Course
Getting familiar with the course methodology and format
Understanding the course objectives
Understanding the course prerequisites
Unit 2: Configuring your Application
Using the Application Framework
Introducing CFC syntax
Configuring application settings
Handling application events
Handling request events
Locking shared scope variables
Handling session events
Unit 3: Manipulating Lists and Queries
Using lists
Manipulating queries
Summarizing and grouping data
Transaction processing
Querying a query
Unit 4: Manipulating Data with Arrays and Structures
Using arrays
Using structures
Using built-in ColdFusion data structures
Dynamically evaluating variables
Combining data structures
Accessing data by value or by reference
Unit 5: Building ColdFusion Components
Reviewing ColdFusion Components
Creating a static component
Defining functions in components
Invoking static CFC methods
Using CFC self-generating documentation
Creating instance based components
Persisting CFC instances
Using built-in components
Inheriting methods, properties, and data between components
Restricting access to component methods
Unit 6: Handling Errors and Exceptions
Introducing error handling
Customizing application error messages
Understanding the try/catch methodology
Learning about exception handling frameworks
Unit 7: Leveraging Code Reuse
Writing code using < cfscript >
Creating custom tags
Nesting custom tags
Using JSP tag libraries
Calling a Java library
Unit 8: Creating Flash Forms
Understanding Flash Forms
Laying out Flash Forms
Using data binding
Working with a dynamic number of elements
Setting default values for form fields
Extending Flash Form interactivity with ActionScript
Using < cfgrid >
Controlling form appearance
Extending Flash Forms with custom components
Unit 9: Scaling Applications
Understanding performance, robustness, and scalability
Effectively configuring the ColdFusion server
Identifying scalability bottlenecks in your code
Caching recordsets
Using < cf_Accelerate > to cache generated page contents
Caching entire page results
Using asynchronous processes to improve performance
Supporting concurrency
Unit 10: Interfacing with External Systems (optional)
Retrieving data from web pages
Retrieving external text
Importing text into a query object
Creating web services
Calling external web services
Unit 11: Using XML (optional)
Introducing XML
Creating XML documents
Application of XML: Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Retrieving XML data from XML documents
Validating an XML document
Referencing data from an XML Document object
Transforming XML to HTML
