Ushered in with ColdFusion MX 6, CFCs have enjoyed strong support from the developer community ever since. These days, ColdFusion 8 provides both significant and subtle improvements to the way CFCs work, which include major new features such as close Ajax integration, not to mention greatly enhanced performance.
Being able to develop using CFCs allows us to write highly maintainable and flexible ColdFusion applications and reuse more code. Even better, it also permits us to leverage great capabilities in ColdFusion, both new and existing, such as automatic web service generation and powerful Ajax tags.
This article will cover the following topics:sss
- what a CFC is
- why CFCs are useful and worth learning
- how to write a CFC
- how and where to start using CFCs in applications
- an introduction to other great features in ColdFusion that use CFCs
- tips for developers new to CFCs
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