ColdFusion MX, developed by Macromedia, is a complete Web application server for developing and delivering scalable e-business applications. The ColdFusion MX solution consists of two related packages:
ColdFusion MX Studio – Tightly integrated with ColdFusion MX Server, ColdFusion MX Studio provides visual programming, database, and debugging tools for building sophisticated Web applications.
ColdFusion Server – ColdFusion MX Server offers all the runtime services for delivering your e-business applications built on a highly scalable and open architecture.
ColdFusion uses a tag-based, server scripting language that is ideal for programming Web applications. Processed entirely on the server, the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) cleanly integrates with HTML for user interface and XML for data exchange. Both open and extensible, CFML supports more than 70 server-side tags, 200 functions, and 800 third-party components. In addition, ColfFusion MX is now available in versions which support J2EE application servers.