ColdFusion MX, Web Services and XML

While ColdFusion is often touted as an easy way to quickly develop server-side web applications, it also is a robust language and environment to develop complex applications. In this course, you will master ColdFusion's ability to deal with XML data, you will create Web Services and Components and more.

Course Outline

• cfhttp
• Using cfhttp to display a complete page
• EXERCISE
• Convert a text file into a query with cfhttp
• Create an Intelligent Agent
• Parse an external page
• EXERCISE
• XML Basics
• Well-formed XML
• XML and ColdFusion
• Parse through XML datasheet
• Loop through nodes
• EXERCISE
• Convert datasheet to query (using cfloop)
• Insert node into XML datasheet and save as text file
• EXERCISE
• Combine multiple datasheets
• EXERCISE
• Transform XML datasheet with XSLT and XMLTransform()
• EXERCISE
• XPath
• EXERCISE
• WDDX
• Query database in CF and serialize as WDDX
• Serialize Recordset as WDDX and pass to JavaScript
• EXERCISE
• Deserialize with JavaScript
• EXERCISE
• CFCs - building ColdFusion Components
• Create CFCs that accept parameters
• EXERCISE
• Object-Oriented CFCs
• Inheritance, controling access to CFC
• Exposing CFCs as Web Services
• EXERCISE
• Web Services
• Convert CFC into Web Service and consume it
• EXERCISE
• Consuming External Web Services
• Using cfinvoke to call the web service
• Using cfscript to call the web service
• EXERCISE
• WSDLs
• SOAP
• EXERCISE
• Using Dreamweaver MX to consume Web Services
• Optional EXERCISE

See also:

Adobe ColdFusion Training Courses

• Core ColdFusion 9 Training (3 days)
• Advanced ColdFusion 9 Training: Components, Error Handling and Complex Objects (2 days)
• Advanced ColdFusion 9 Training: XML, External Data and File System (2 days)
• ColdFusion 9 and Reporting (2 days)
• ColdFusion 9 and Ajax (2 days)
• What's New in ColdFusion 9 (2 days)

• Core ColdFusion 8 (3 days)
• Advanced ColdFusion 8: Components, Error Handling and Complex Objects (2 days)
• Advanced ColdFusion 8: XML, External Data and File System (2 days)
• ColdFusion 8 and Reporting (2 days)
• ColdFusion 8 and Ajax (2 days)
• What's New in ColdFusion 8 (2 days)

• Introduction to ColdFusion MX 7 (3 days)
• Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 (4 days)

• Introduction to ColdFusion MX (2 days)
• Advanced ColdFusion MX (3 days)
• ColdFusion MX, Web Services and XML (2 days)
• FuseBox 4.1 Training (2 day)
• Building Data-driven Websites with Dreamweaver 8(using ColdFusion, PHP, ASP.NET or ASP) (2 days)
• Flash Remoting MX: Integrating Flash and ColdFusion (2 days)