Coldfusion hosting is getting harder and harder to find these days. Coldfusion has continued to lose its market share to more popular open-source options. Many people have been worried about what would become of Coldfusion, since it is a commercial product and does not have a large amount of developers.
However, with Adobe’s release of Coldfusion 9, all worries have been placated for the moment. While Coldfusion 9 once again proved that it is one of the best alternatives available, it hasn’t make Coldfusion hosting any easier to find.
Coldfusion Hosting now features some applications that were newly released in Coldfusion 9.
Server Manager
From a center console, you can now complete administrative tasks simultaneously across multiple servers. This includes creating data centers, applying hot fixes, scheduling tasks, comparing settings across Coldfusion servers, and clearing caches.
Tighter Integration with the Coldfusion Builder
Developers can now create Coldfusion application faster than ever before. They can leverage the Adobe Coldfusion Builder which is an Eclipse-based IDE.
Object Relational Mapping
When you have Coldfusion hosting, you will be able to build database-independent applications while using object relational mapping. This is based primarily on the open source Hibernate library. This allows you to save time by managing database connectivity and logic without any SQL. With the ORM Application Wizard, you can do this without writing a single line of code.
Enhanced Caching
Coldfusion hosting allows you to improve your application performance by caching sections of pages with data that is rarely updated.
CFML and CFC Upgrades
There were several CFML and CFC improvements that will increase performance and error handling. These updates include the onServerStart() method, local variable scope, implicit getters and setters, and nested CFTRANSACTIONS.
Virtual File System Support
With Coldfusion hosting, you will be able to build applications that require less I/O calls by using the new Virtual File System. They can be dynamically generated and executed from memory.
More PDF Functionality
You can reduce the necessary code by adding imaged directly to the PDF within the CFPDF tag. This makes it easier to add watermarks, headers, and footers to all of your PDF files.
Instance Based Licensing
Coldfusion hosting has been made easier because in addition to the physical deployment, you can install Coldfusion 9 on 10 virtual instances within the cloud environment of the hosts choosing.
