Upgrading ColdFusion 5.0 to MX 1-day course that provides experienced ColdFusion 4.0, 4.5 and 5.0 professionals with the advanced skills necessary to create industrial strength ColdFusion applications utilizing the advanced features of ColdFusion MX.

Topics
Upgrading to ColdFusion MX takes the experienced ColdFusion developer and teaches the ColdFusion MX concepts that are different or unique to the MX environment. Also, we go into a good amount of items to look out for while developing ColdFusion MX applications.

Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Discover the new features of Dreamweaver MX and learn how to use them effectively
• Review installation and configuration options
• Discover the exciting world of ColdFusion Components (CFC's)
• Develop your first web service
• Perform XML transformations
• Use the new CFFUNCTION tag to create more powerful UDF's
• Invoke JSP tag libraries
• Implement and leverage the new server sandbox security architecture
• Discover Server-Side ActionScript and Macromedia Flash Remoting

Prerequisites

• Introduction to ColdFusion
• Advanced ColdFusion
• At least 6 months of CF application development

Course Outline

• Course Overview / Installing the MX platform
• Introduction to Dreamweaver MX
• Server-Sandbox Security
• XML Support
• ColdFusion Components and Web Services
• The impact of Java
• Misc. Language Enhancements
• CFCHART
• CFFUNCTION
• Enhancements to pre-existing tags
• Server-side ActionScript and Flash Remoting