ColdFusion Markup Language: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:26, 22 November 2017

Revision as of 17:43, 10 January 2018

Line 24:

}}

'''ColdFusion Markup Language''', more commonly known as '''CFML''', is a [[server-side scripting|scripting language]] for web development that runs on the [[JVM]], the [[.NET Framework|.NET]] framework, and [[Google App Engine]]. Multiple commercial and [[open source]] implementations of CFML engines are available, including [[Adobe ColdFusion]], [[Lucee]], [[New Atlanta]] [[BlueDragon]] (who makesoffer both a Java-based and a .NET-based version), [[Railo]], and [[Open BlueDragon]] as well as [[ColdFusion#Alternative server environments|other CFML server engines]].

== Synopsis ==

Line 40:

== History ==

Named Cold Fusion at the outset, the software was created in 1995 by the [[Allaire Corporation]], originally located in [[Minnesota]]. It later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and then finally to Newton, Massachusetts before being acquired by [[Macromedia]] in 2001. Allaire Cold Fusion thus became Macromedia Cold Fusion. At the release of version 4, the space in the name was removed to become ColdFusion. Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005 and is still actively developing ColdFusion.

In 1998 Alan Williamson and his Scottish company, "n-ary", began creating a templating engine for Java to simplify common programming tasks.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100917122859/http://alan.blog-city.com/interview_alanwilliamson.htm Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series – Alan Williamson]. alan.blog-city.com</ref> Williamson was using curly-brace notation instead of tags, but when he saw an example of CFML and how it was solving similar problems (although not in Java) using a tag syntax, he started developing what would eventually become BlueDragon, which was the first Java implementation of the CFML language. (ColdFusion was written in C and C++ until version 6.0&nbsp;— the first Java-based version of ColdFusion&nbsp;— was released in 2002.) New Atlanta licensed BlueDragon around 2001 and made it available as a commercial product, eventually creating a .NET implementation of CFML. Open BlueDragon is a fork of the commercial BlueDragon product and was first released in 2008.

Line 50:

In 2012, the OpenCFML Foundation was launched. Its function is to push [[open-source]] CFML applications and platforms.

On January 29, 2015 formerFormer Railo lead developer Michael Offner launched [[Lucee]] in London, a fork of the [[Railo]], backedin London on January 29, 2015. Backed by community supporters and members of the Lucee Association., Thethe goal of the project is to provide the functionality of CFML using fewer resources, giving better performance and to move CFML past its roots and into a modern and dynamic Web programming platform.

== Syntax ==