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Cold
Fusion and Active Server Page Comparison
Cold Fusion provides a robust set of tools and services for building Web
applications. The following table compares ASP 2.0 and Visual InterDev 6.0 with Cold
Fusion and Cold Fusion Studio
Target Clients |
ASP |
ColdFusion |
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Primary target HTML
Browser |
× |
× |
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Includes Cross-browser
components (Java) |
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× |
| Application Server – Deployment |
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Applications Deployed as
Scripts & Components |
× |
× |
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JIT Page Compilation |
× |
× |
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Dynamic Output Caching |
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× |
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Page Caching |
× |
× |
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Support for CGI |
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× |
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Support For ISAPI |
× |
× |
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Support for NSAPI |
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× |
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Support for Apache |
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× |
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System Service
Architecture |
× |
× |
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Web Based Administration |
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× |
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Multithreaded Architecture |
× |
× |
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Scheduling Engine |
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× |
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Scheduled page publishing |
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× |
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Windows NT Deployment |
× |
× |
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Sun Solaris Deployment |
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× |
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Integrated with
Transaction Processing |
× |
× |
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Automatic Load Balancing
in n-Server Clusters |
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× |
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Automatic Server Recovery |
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× |
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High Availability (Fail
Over) in n-Server Clusters |
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× |
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Application
Server – Security, State, and Programming
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Support for native web
server security |
× |
× |
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Client state |
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× |
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Session state |
× |
× |
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Application state |
× |
× |
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Server state |
× |
× |
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Page encryption |
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× |
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Open State Repository |
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× |
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Open Authentication System |
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× |
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Remote Development
Security via HTTP |
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× |
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Application Sever Sandbox
Deployment |
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× |
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Server-Side Page Includes |
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× |
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Custom Error Messages |
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× |
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Server-Side Custom Tags |
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× |
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Regular Expressions |
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× |
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Application
Server – Database Integration
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Full SQL Support |
× |
× |
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Stored Procedures |
× |
× |
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Persistent Queries |
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× |
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Dynamic SQL |
× |
× |
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DB Transaction control |
× |
× |
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Automatic HTML Table
Output |
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× |
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Support for Crystal
Reports |
× |
× |
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Remote Web-based ODBC
Management |
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× |
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ODBC Support |
× |
× |
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Automatic Database
Connection Caching |
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× |
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Can group database access
under a single user ID |
× |
× |
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Use database security
model (pass though) |
× |
× |
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Native Database Drivers
for Oracle and Sybase |
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× |
Application Server – Technology Integration |
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File Uploading |
× |
× |
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Copy, Move, Rename, Delete
files |
× |
× |
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Read, Write, Append Files |
× |
× |
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Directory Browsing |
× |
× |
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Email (SMTP, POP)
Integration |
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× |
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Directory Integration
(LDAP) |
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× |
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Server Side HTTP
Integration |
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× |
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Support for COM |
× |
× |
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Embedded Full Text
Index/Search Engine |
|
× |
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Programmatic Control Over
Indexing |
|
× |
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Support for Indexing ODBC
Datasources |
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× |
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Support for CORBA |
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× |
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Development
Environment – General
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Graphical SQL Query
Builder |
× |
× |
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Remote Data Editing |
× |
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Database Schema Editing |
× |
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Web-Based Remote Database
Development |
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× |
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Source-code Control
Interface Support |
× |
× |
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Interactive Debugging |
× |
× |
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Visual Screen/Form Builder |
× |
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Visual HTML Design |
× |
× |
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Text HTML Editor |
× |
× |
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Wizards |
× |
× |
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Ability to Extend IDE |
× |
× |
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DHTML Tools |
× |
× |
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Site Visualization |
× |
× |
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XML tools |
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× |
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Server-side Source Control |
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× |
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One-Step Deployment |
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× |
Help Systems – General |
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Ships with Printed
Documentation |
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× |
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Ships with Online
Documentation |
× |
× |
Cold Fusion is a U.S. registered trademark, and Allaire, the Allaire
logo, HomeSite and ColdFusion are trademarks of Allaire Corporation.
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