About Macromedia ColdFusion MX documentation

The ColdFusion documentation is designed to provide support for the complete spectrum of participants. The print and online versions are organized to let you quickly locate the information that you need. The ColdFusion online documentation is provided in HTML and Adobe Acrobat formats.

Printed and online documentation set

The ColdFusion documentation set consists of the following titles:
Book
Description
Installing ColdFusion MX
Describes system installation and basic configuration for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX.
Administering ColdFusion MX
Describes how to use the ColdFusion Administrator to manage the ColdFusion environment, including connecting to your data sources and configuring security for your applications,
Developing ColdFusion MX Applications with CFML
Describes how to develop your dynamic web applications, including retrieving and updating your data, using structures, and forms.
Getting Started Building ColdFusion MX Applications
Contains an overview of ColdFusion features and application development procedures. Includes a tutorial that guides you through the process of developing an example ColdFusion application.
Using Server-Side ActionScript in ColdFusion MX
Describes how Macromedia Flash movies executing on a client browser can call ActionScript code running on the ColdFusion server. Includes examples of server-side ActionScript and a syntax guide for developing ActionScript pages on the server.
Migrating ColdFusion 5 Applications
Describes how to migrate a ColdFusion 5 application to ColdFusion MX. This book describes the code compatibility analyzer that evaluates your ColdFusion 5 code to determine any incompatibilities within it.
CFML Reference
Provides descriptions, syntax, usage, and code examples for all ColdFusion tags, functions, and variables.
CFML Quick Reference
A brief guide that shows the syntax of ColdFusion tags, functions, and variables.
Working with Verity Tools
Describes Verity search tools and utilities that you can use for configuring the Verity K2 Server search engine, as well as creating, managing, and troubleshooting Verity collections.
Using ClusterCATS
Describes how to use Macromedia ClusterCATS, the clustering technology that provides load-balancing and failover services to assure high availability for your web servers.

Viewing online documentation

All ColdFusion documentation is available online in HTML and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files. To view the HTML documentation, open the following URL on the web server running ColdFusion: http://web_root/cfdocs/dochome.htm.

ColdFusion documentation in Acrobat format is available on the ColdFusion product CD-ROM.

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