Advanced ColdFusion 9 Development
3 day instructor led course, € 1.695,-
UNIT 1: INTRODUCING THE COURSE AND PORTAL APPLICATION
UNIT 2: ADVANCED COLDFUSION COMPONENT CONCEPTS (3 HOURS)
- Creating instance based components
- Associating data with components
- Defining CFC Properties
- Using Getters and Setters
- Restricting Method Invocation by Role
- Walkthrough 1: Persisting Components in Memory
- Building Components with Inheritance
- Walkthrough 2: Using Inheritance
- Building Components with Scripting
- Walkthrough 3: Building Components with Scripting
- Using CF Administrator API Components
- Walkthrough 4: Using the Admin API and Java Components
UNIT 3: CODE AND CONTENT REUSE (2 HOURS)
- Creating CFML custom tags
- Walkthrough 1: Creating a Simple CFML Custom Tag
- Creating CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags
- Walkthrough 2: CFML Simple Nested Custom Tags to abstract your site's GUI
- .NET Integration with ColdFusion 9
- Walkthrough 3: Using a .NET Assembly to add spell checking to ColdFusion
- Creating Web Services
- SOAP-based services
- RESTful services
- Walkthrough 4: Creating a Web Service
- Calling Web Services
- Accessing through Basic Authentication
- Using WSSE Authentication
- Walkthrough 5: Calling a web service
UNIT 4: HANDLING ERRORS AND EXCEPTIONS (2 HOURS)
- Introducing error handling
- Customizing application error messages
- Walkthrough 1: Implementing a Global Error Handler
- Creating an Application-Wide Error Handler
- Using onError()
- Using onMissingTemplate()
- Walkthrough 2: Handling Page-Level Errors
- Handling Exceptions with Try/Catch
- Walkthrough 3: Capturing form information after an aborted save attempt and writing it to disk
- Creating an Exception-Handling Framework
- Using <cfthrow>
- Capturing thrown errors in onError()
- Walkthrough 4: Building an Exception Handling Framework
UNIT 5: ADVANCED USER INTERFACE DESIGN (4.5 HOURS)
- Introducing ColdFusion AJAX Functionality
- Debugging ColdFusion AJAX Applications
- Using the ColdFusion AJAX Logger
- Using Firebug
- Walkthrough 1: Debugging AJAX Applications
- Making Background Data Requests
- Returning data from Remote CFC Methods
- Securing your AJAX Requests
- Using <cfajaxproxy>
- Walkthrough 2: Making Background Data Requests
- Developing the User Interface
- Using Container Tags
- Using <cfpod>
- Using <cflayout>
- Using <cfwindow>
- Walkthrough 3: Using Layout Controls to Create a Tabbed based GUI
- Working with Bind Expressions
- Working with Bind Expression Syntax
- Binding Text fields with the @modifier
- Binding to <cfselect>
- Using a Bind Expression with <cfajaxproxy>
- Walkthough 4: Using Bind Expressions with <cfajaxproxy>
- Submitting Form Data Asynchronously
- Using ColdFusion.Ajax.submitForm()
- Explicitly invoking CFFORM Validation
- Retrieving Object/Attribute Values
- Building the Action Page
- Deploying ColdFusion.Ajax.submitForm()
- Walkthrough 5: Asynchonously Submitting Forms
- Using Special Text Input Fields
- Using Autosuggest Text Fields
- Working with the DateField selector
- Using the WYSIWYG Editor
- Walkthrough 6: Implementing the Rich Text Controls
- Working with <cfgrid>
- Walkthrough 7: Using <cfgrid>
- Visualizing Data with Google Maps
- Walkthrough 8: Using <cfmap>
- Working with Video
- Walkthrough 9: Using <cfmediaplayer>
UNIT 6: WORKING WITH DOCUMENTS (3 HOURS)
- Generating PDF Files from ColdFusion
- Walkthrough 1: Generating a PDF
- Manipulating PDF Files with <cfpdf>
- Walkthrough 2: Adding Watermarks and Security to a PDF
- Pre-filling PDF Forms
- Walkthrough 3: Filling a form from a CF web service and <cfpdfform>
- Posting Data from a PDF Form to ColdFusion
- Walkthrough 4: Handling PDF Form Submissions
- Working with Spreadsheets
- Reading Data from a Spreadsheet
- Populating a Spreadsheet
- Writing a Spreadsheet to Disk
- Walkthrough 5: Dynamically creating an Excel file with a Graph
- Creating Dynamic Presentations
- Walkthrough 6: Creating Dynamic Powerpoint and Flash Presentations
UNIT 7: ColdFusion ORM
- Introduction to ColdFusion ORM
- ColdFusion ORM Architecture
- Configuring ColdFusion ORM
- Walkthrough 1: Enabling ColdFusion ORM
- ColdFusion ORM Mapping
- Walkthrough 2: ORM Component Mapping
- CRUD Operations with ColdFusion ORM
- Walkthrough 3: Performing CRUD Operations
- Defining Relationships in ColdFusion ORM
- Walkthrough 4: Working with Relationships in ColdFusion ORM
- ColdFusion ORM Session Management
UNIT 8: PERFORMANCE, SCALABILITY, AND ROBUSTNESS (OPTIONAL UNIT, if time allows)
- Configuring for Scalability
- Walkthrough 1: Adjusting JVM and CF Administrator Settings
- Understanding and Identifying Scalability Bottlenecks
- Walkthrough 2: Identifying Bottlenecks using the debug output and server monitor
- Using Asynchronous Processes to Improve Performance
- Walkthrough 3: Creating Asynchronous Processes with <cfthread>
- Caching Recordsets
- Walkthrough 4: Caching queries using cachedwithin and as properties of components
- Caching Content with <cfcache>
- Using <cfcache> to cache RSS Feeds and programatically exprire the cache
