Adobe® ColdFusion® 8: Level Three (Advanced ColdFusion® Development) Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 2 6 3 Adobe ColdFusion ACE Exam cfm2 Our Advanced ColdFusion MX 8 Development is designed to teach you how to take full advantage of ColdFusion 8 while building web applications. In this task-based course, you incorporate advanced functionality to build a robust website and intranet for a fictional restaurant named Café Townsend. In addition to introducing new concepts, the course focuses on best practices and design, stressing the importance of usability, code reuse, performance, and scalability. A minimum of 512 MB of RAM (1GB recommended) A 10 GB hard disk or larger A 1 GHz Pentium-class processor or faster A 1024 x 768 resolution monitor is recommended A mouse or other pointing device Installed printer drivers A CD-ROM drive Internet Access (contact your local network administrator) Windows XP Professional or higher Adobe® ColdFusion® Server Developer Edition or higher with .NET service installed on port 8500 Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or later Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS3 or later Adobe® Flash® Player 9.0 or later Completion of the Fast Track to ColdFusion course or equivalent experience from building ColdFusion applications. Experience developing web applications using ColdFusion for at least three months after taking the Fast Track to ColdFusion course. Practical experience using CFML tags, functions, and variables. Practical experience with the SQL command set, including SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE. Define a ColdFusion component and its use case Create a list within your webpage whose data is derived from a database Manipulate the data you present to the user via arrays and structures Solve complex web application problems through advanced component architecture Debug and trouble shoot your ColdFusion applications Error-Trap your application to achieve a trouble-free experience for your end-users Learn how to code efficiently through the use of modular components and code-reuse techniques Explain best practices and design Indicate the new features of ColdFusion MX 8 Increase the performance of your ColdFusion application Understand the process of scaling an application including best practices Introduction to Components Creating ColdFusion Components Introducing CFC Syntax Creating a Component Method Invoking Static CFC Methods Invoking a Component Method Using the Application Framework Configuring Application Settings Configure Application Settings Handling Application Events Handling Application Events Handling Request Events Responding to Request Events Locking Shared Scope Variables Handling Session Events Using Session Events Manipulating Lists and Queries Using Lists Manipulating Lists The Query Object Summarizing and Grouping Data Grouping Query Output Transaction Processing Using <cftransaction> Querying a Query Uploading Data and Querying a Query Manipulating Data with Arrays and Structures Using Arrays Working with Arrays Using Structures Using Structure Functions Using Built-In ColdFusion Data Structures Dynamically Evaluating Variables Dynamically Evaluating Variables Combining Data Structures Creating Complex Data Structures Accessing Data by Value or Reference Testing Access to Data by Reference or Value Advanced Component Concepts Instance-Based Components Persisting Components and Data in Memory Creating Dynamic Getter/Setter Proxies with onMissingMethod() Using onMissingMethod() Using Built-In Components Using the Admin API Prototyping Components with <cfinterface> Validating a Component Against an Interface Handling Errors and Exceptions Introducing Error Handling Customizing Application Error Messages Global Error Handling Application-Wide Error Handling Handing Page-Level Errors Handling Exceptions with Try/Catch Using <cftry> and <cfcatch> to Handle an Exception Exception Handling Frameworks Building An Exception Handling Framework Code and Content Reuse Creating Custom Tags Using Custom Tag Attributes Setting Results on the Calling Page Calling Custom Tags CFML Simple Custom Tags Creating CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags .NET Integration with ColdFusion 8 Using a .NET Assembly Creating Web Services Creating a Web Service Calling Web Services Calling a Web Service Working with PDF Files and Forms Generate PDF Files from ColdFusion Generating a PDF file Manipulating PDF Files with <cfpdf> PDF Transformation Pre-filling PDF Forms Pre-filling PDF Forms Posting Data from a PDF Form to ColdFusion Handling PDF Form Submissions Data and File Manipulation in ColdFusion Manipulating Image Data with <cfimage> Using CAPTCHA Reading and Storing Image Data Working with Images Image Processing Modifying Images Creating RSS Feeds Exporting Data as RSS Consuming RSS Feeds Parsing a Remote Feed Scaling Applications Understanding and Identifying Scalability Bottlenecks Identifying Bottlenecks Caching Recordsets Caching Query Results Caching Generated Results with <cf_accelerate> Caching Page Sections Caching Entire Page Results Page Caching and Pseudo-Static Code Generation Using Asynchronous Processes to Improve Performance Creating Asynchronous Processes Element K Course Number: MM20116