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Training Course Summary:

Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development provides ColdFusion application developers with the knowledge and hands-on practice that they need to build, maintain, and scale effective web applications. Topics include using the Application Framework, manipulating complex data in arrays and structures, structuring your code with
ColdFusion Components, gracefully handling errors and exceptions, encapsulating your user-interface with custom tags, creating and consuming web services, leveraging .NET assemblies, creating and manipulating PDF content, and working with highly interactive interfaces using Adobe Livecycle forms. This course focuses on creating and delivering scalable and well-performing applications.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Introducing the Course

About the Course
Course Overview
Prerequistes
Course Format
Introduction to Components

Using the Application Framework
Introducing CFC Syntax
Configuring Application Settings
Handling Application Events
Handling Request Events
Locking Shared Scope Variables
Handling Session Events
Manipulating Lists and Queries

Using Lists
The Query Object
Summarizing and Grouping Data
Transaction Processing
Querying a Query
Manipulating Data with Arrays and Structures

Using Arrays
Using Structures
Using Built-In ColdFusion Data Structures
Dynamically Evaluating Variables
Combining Data Structures
Accessing Data by Value or Reference
Advanced Component Concepts

Instance-Based Components
Creating Dynamic Getter/Setter Proxies with onMissingMethod()
Using Built-In Components
Prototyping Components with
Handling Errors and Exceptions

Introducing Error Handling
Customizing Application Error Messages
Handling Exceptions with Try/Catch
Exception Handling Frameworks
Code and Content Reuse

Creating Custom Tags
Using Custom Tag Attributes
Setting Results on the Calling Page
Calling Custom Tags
Creating CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags
.NET Integration with ColdFusion 8
Creating Web Services
Calling Web Services
Working with PDF Files and Forms

Generate PDF Files from ColdFusion
Manipulating PDF Files with
Pre-filling PDF Forms
Posting Data from a PDF Form to ColdFusion
Data and File Manipulation in ColdFusion

Manipulating Image Data with
Reading and Storing Image Data
Image Processing
Creating RSS Feeds
Consuming RSS Feeds
Scaling Applications

Understanding and Identifying Scalability Bottlenecks
Caching Recordsets
Caching Generated Results with
Caching Entire Page Results
Using Asynchronous Processes to Improve Performance