Advanced ColdFusion 9 Development

This course contains:

UNIT 1: INTRODUCING THE COURSE AND PORTAL APPLICATION

UNIT 2: ADVANCED COLDFUSION COMPONENT CONCEPTS (3 HOURS)

• Creating instance based components
• Associating data with components
• Defining CFC Properties
• Using Getters and Setters
• Restricting Method Invocation by Role

• Building Components with Inheritance

• Building Components with Scripting

• Using CF Administrator API Components

UNIT 3: CODE AND CONTENT REUSE (2 HOURS)

• Creating CFML custom tags

• Creating CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags

• .NET Integration with ColdFusion 9

• Creating Web Services
• SOAP-based services
• RESTful services

• Calling Web Services
• Accessing through Basic Authentication
• Using WSSE Authentication

UNIT 4: HANDLING ERRORS AND EXCEPTIONS (2 HOURS)

• Introducing error handling
• Customizing application error messages

• Creating an Application-Wide Error Handler
• Using onError()
• Using onMissingTemplate()

• Handling Exceptions with Try/Catch

• Creating an Exception-Handling Framework
• Using <cfthrow>
• Capturing thrown errors in onError()

UNIT 5: ADVANCED USER INTERFACE DESIGN (4.5 HOURS)

• Introducing ColdFusion AJAX Functionality
• Debugging ColdFusion AJAX Applications
• Using the ColdFusion AJAX Logger
• Using Firebug

• Making Background Data Requests
• Returning data from Remote CFC Methods
• Securing your AJAX Requests
• Using <cfajaxproxy>

• Developing the User Interface
• Using Container Tags
• Using <cfpod>
• Using <cflayout>
• Using <cfwindow>

• Working with Bind Expressions
• Working with Bind Expression Syntax
• Binding Text fields with the @modifier
• Binding to <cfselect>
• Using a Bind Expression with <cfajaxproxy>

• Submitting Form Data Asynchronously
• Using ColdFusion.Ajax.submitForm()
• Explicitly invoking CFFORM Validation
• Retrieving Object/Attribute Values
• Building the Action Page
• Deploying ColdFusion.Ajax.submitForm()

• Using Special Text Input Fields
• Using Autosuggest Text Fields
• Working with the DateField selector
• Using the WYSIWYG Editor

• Working with <cfgrid>

• Visualizing Data with Google Maps

• Working with Video

UNIT 6: WORKING WITH DOCUMENTS (3 HOURS)

• Generating PDF Files from ColdFusion

• Manipulating PDF Files with <cfpdf>

• Pre-filling PDF Forms

• Posting Data from a PDF Form to ColdFusion

• Working with Spreadsheets
• Reading Data from a Spreadsheet
• Populating a Spreadsheet
• Writing a Spreadsheet to Disk

• Creating Dynamic Presentations

UNIT 7: ColdFusion ORM

• Introduction to ColdFusion ORM
• ColdFusion ORM Architecture
• Configuring ColdFusion ORM

• ColdFusion ORM Mapping

• CRUD Operations with ColdFusion ORM

• Defining Relationships in ColdFusion ORM

• ColdFusion ORM Session Management

UNIT 8: PERFORMANCE, SCALABILITY, AND ROBUSTNESS (OPTIONAL UNIT, if time allows)

• Configuring for Scalability

• Understanding and Identifying Scalability Bottlenecks

• Using Asynchronous Processes to Improve Performance

• Caching Recordsets

• Caching Content with <cfcache>
• Using <cfcache> to cache RSS Feeds and programatically exprire the cache