About This Book

Getting Started Building ColdFusion Applications is intended for anyone who wants to learn how to use ColdFusion MX to create web applications.

This book consists of two parts:

Part I introduces related web technologies and explains how ColdFusion works. This part also introduces the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), basic database concepts, and information about how to configure your development environment for the tutorial in Part II of this book.
Part II provides a complete tutorial of everything you need to know to build a sample ColdFusion application. It consists of six lessons. Ideally, you should work through each of the lessons in the order they are presented.