I. Welcome to the ColdFusion 4.5 Web Application Server

The ColdFusion 4.5 release focuses on fundamentals — the fundamentals of deliv­ering your e-business: faster development, better reliability, enhanced scalability, expanded integration, and stronger secu­rity.

At the center of the ColdFusion 4.5 re­lease is an application server platform that's been highly optimized with new func­tionality and native support for UNIX. As a result, your e-business systems will run better and do more. With this release we're launching a new edition of ColdFusion Server for Linux so you can take advan­tage of the reliability and performance of the hottest new Internet server oper­ating system.

While optimizing the core server, we

also enhanced fundamental features /in-

eluding email integration, server-side FTP

and HTTP, advanced security, scheduling,

and database connectivity — again giving you more reliability and new functional­ity. The focus on fundamentals extends to new features. As part of a broad new commitment to Java, ColdFusion 4.5 has a rangg of new Java integration options from Java CFXs to Java Servlet support to Java object and EJB connectivity. In ColdFusion

Studio 4.5, we added new tools to make

you more productive including a flexible

new project architecture that makes mana­ging and deploying complex Web applica­tions a snap. On the server, we focused

on reliability, performance and security with features such as service-level fail­over, Cisco Local Director integration, and OS security integration. Whether

you're revolutionizing your company's HR operations, building the next genera- tion of your firm's global intranet, or launching the next killer .COM company, you'll find the speed, scalability, con­nectivity, and security you need in ColdFusion 4.5.

II. New features in ColdFusion 4.5

A wide range of new features ape available in ColdFusion 4.5.

New visual tools

Universal File Browser - Access all your files from a single explorer that integrates access to the Windows file system, ColdFusion RDS servers, and FTP servers. Drag-and-drop between any of these services all in an integrated file browser.

• Advanced Project, Management — Manage your complex Web application development projects with a new project architecture that gives you more flexibility and control using physical, virtual, and auto-inclusive project fold­ers as well as project resource browsing.

• Scriptable Deployment — Deploy applications to com­plex server configurations with FTP or ColdFusion Remote Development Services (RDS). Use VBScript or Java Script to fully script deployment of projects with granular control over how files uploaded. Setup 'deployment scripts using a powerful wizard and save scripts for re-use.

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Configuration Wizard — Setup your work environment so it meets all your needs using any of more than dozen common configurations.

• TopStvle CSS Editor — Create and edit standards- compliant cascading style sheets to easily control the look and feel of your web applications.

WML Support. — Build wireless Web applications quickly and easily with the complete set of Wireless Markup Language (WML) visual tools.

Enhancements to CFML

Object Scripting — Instantiate and script objects us­ing CFML script in addition to the CFOBJECT tag easier