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ColdFusion was launched by Allaire Corporation in 1995, and was the first Web Application Server available for Windows NT- based Web Servers. ColdFusion is accessible for Windows NT, Solaris, HPUX and Linux. First version is ColdFusion 4.5 the ColdFusion 4.5.1 then introduced ColdFusion 5 and now Macromedia introduces ColdFusion MX6.1.

The ColdFusion is a rapid application development system that is used to create interactive Web sites and carry out the server-side processing. The main characteristic of ColdFusion is that it relates to scripting language, ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML), which compares to JSP, C#, or PHP and resembles HTML in syntax.

The features of ColdFusion are:

• It imparts extensive number of tags.
• Supports COM and DCOM objects.
• Includes its own API called CFAPI.
• Includes file management capabilities.
• Integrates with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers.
• Generates and retrieves email using SMTP/POP etc.

ColdFusion frequently used for data-driven web sites or intranets. It also provides various services such as: conversion from HTML to PDF and FlashPaper, platform-independent database querying via ODBC or JDBC, data retrieval from common enterprise systems such as Active Directory, LDAP, POP, HTTP, and FTP etc.

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