ColdFusion 8 Beginner

[BrianTech3]

Hi,

I used to work back in the day with CF 5 a great deal and became very
proficient with it, but ended up taking another job and got away from web
programming. I have another job now where I'll be working with CF 8 and I see
that alot has changed. To begin with, I don't have very much Java knowledge.
I still remember all the fundamentals of CF 5, so I suppose my biggest hurdle
will be the Java integration. I'm not sure where to start catching up, so I'm
hoping some of you might have suggestions on where to start. Should I start
with MX guides or should I just get a CF 8 book and start there? Is the Java
stuff fairly intuitive and are the CF books inclusive of it, or should I get a
separate guide for that? Is there a particular guide/book that you recommend
which is good (Adobe, O' Reilly, etc.)? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

[Azadi]

unless you are going to be leveraging some java functionality not built
into cf (which you easily can in cf), there is NO need for you to know
any java to use cf.

cf8 is the same awesome tag-based programming language as it was before,
just that since cfmx (ver 6) it is built on java instead of c++.

as for getting back into the game, since you have done this before, the
CFML Reference + CF Developers Guide (both downloadable freely from
adobe.com) should be enough for you to get up to speed with new
tags/functions.

and, as always, Ben Forta's & Co CF WACK is a great resource (comes in 3
volumes now for cf8!)

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

[JR "Bob" Dobbs]

The biggest improvement in moving from CF5 to CF6 or higher is the addition of
ColdFusion Components (CFCs). These add object-oriented features to CFML. I
recommend you become familiar with and use CFCs in your code. Both the online
docs and Forta's books contain examples for using CFCs.

[BrianTech3]

Thank you for the input, I'll definitely check both of those out :smile;