25 May, 2014

Using ColdFusion to Develop Your Business Application – Why?

Adobe ColdFusion is used widely by developers across the world to create robust web applications within a shorter span of time. The platform comes with several features to complement the most recent trends in website and internet application development. Adobe has recently released ColdFusion 11 Enterprise Edition with a set of enhanced and innovative features to build and deploy both web applications and mobile applications through a single platform. So you can always consider building business applications with ColdFusion 11 to avail some of these enhanced features and capabilities.

Why Use ColdFusion 11 for Business Application Development?

Rapid Mobile Application Development: Most users, nowadays, access business applications on their mobile devices. So an enterprise mobile app can make a huge difference to the visibility and marketing strategy of your business. But you bust build the mobile application rapidly, and update it frequently to beat completion. ColdFusion 11 comes with a set of features that enable developers to build mobile version of the enterprise application rapidly. The mobile app developers can build application without learning any new technology. Further, they can optimize the look, feel and performance of the application by availing the multi-device inspection capabilities and on-device debugging features of ColdFusion 11.

Effectuate Working with PDFs: ColdFusion 11 further allows developers to manipulate PDFs through Document Description XML (DDX). In addition to attaching files and adding comments, they can avail the feature to add headers and footers with automatic page numbers. Also, they have option to customize the look of PDF files by setting page margins, rotation and size. At the same time, the security of the PDFs can be optimized by using electronic signatures. The updated version of ColdFusion further comes with an improved conversion engine to convert HTML files into high quality PDF files. As the conversion engine can parse CSS, the look and functions of the PDF file can be optimized by retaining the layout, formatting and hyperlinks from the original HTML files.

Comprehensive Security: It is also important for developers to identify all types of security risks and take the required measures to keep the web application secure. ColdFusion 11 helps programmers in eliminating security risks by restricting default remote access to the administrator portal. The feature further enables developers to sanitize the user input using member functions to prevent cross-site scripting and click-jacking. They can further optimize the security of public-facing web applications by using real time server response by extending the power of HTML5 web sockets. At the same time, they can use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to publish information without any risk.

Quick Testing and Debugging: The programmers often explore smart ways to test and debug mobile enterprise applications. The look, feel and performance of the business application also need to be checked across different mobile devices and mobile web browsers. The developers can use their existing CFML skills to create mobile app rapidly by the integrating it with Adobe PhoneGap Build. The feature makes it easier for developers to install and run the application on widely used mobile platforms like Android and iOS. At the same time, they can use the on-device debugging capabilities of ColdFusion 11 to identify and fix the flaws that affect the performance of the business application on mobile devices or web browsers. The ColdFusion Builder can be further connected to the mobile application remotely to evaluate the application code by stimulating the actual user behavior.

On the whole, Adobe has designed ColdFusion 11 Enterprise Edition with the capabilities to complement the latest trends in business application development. You can avail these features to create and deploy high-performing and scalable business applications that can be accessed by users on a wide variety of devices.

You can hire developers from top ColdFusion application development companies in India who can help you build your website within allocated budgets and time schedules.

We provide ColdFusion development services. If you would like to discuss with an expert ColdFusion developers from our team, please get in touch with us at Mindfire Solutions.

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