ColdFusion includes many tools and techniques for responding to errors that your application encounters. These tools include error handling mechanisms and error logging tools. This chapter describes these tools and how to use them.
This chapter does not discuss techniques for preventing errors, including methods for specifying user input validation. It also does not discuss code debugging. For information on user input validation, see Chapter 26, "Retrieving and Formatting Data" and Chapter 27, "Building Dynamic Forms". For information on debugging, see Chapter 18, "Debugging and Troubleshooting Applications".