what is the colfusion's best feature

I haven't ever used coldfusion, can any one tell me what's the colfusion's best feature.


thanks

 

Ease of use.... Very simple to build basic pages, very html-like syntax.

 

Also, due to its ease of use, you can build web applications rather quickly.

 

I would refrain from using easy in the description. It makes things as hard as they should be. A number of other languages make things much harder then it needs to be. It is also a few years ahead of other languages on introducing features like state handling, web services, and Flash forms.

 

i agree, CF does the same job as many other languages but does it with less code making it quicker and easier (IMHO) to develop pages!

 

I agree with everyone here that coldfusion is #1 for rapid development (haven't tried Ruby Rails yet.)

 

Started with VB, then ASP, PHP, CF, Now I'm back to Microsoft. MS ASP.NET is off the CHAIN - but it's all about the IDE. The MS Development Tool for Developing .NET 2005 is UnFriggin Believable - wanna talk about rapid development? Literally Drag-On your components (like a few textboxes, labels, and a submit button). .NET 2005 is Tight... and it now has a slick "Memberships and Roles" functionality!

 

The best feature of ColdFusion 7.0 is a dynamic PDF/Flash Paper creation.

<cfdocument format="pdf">
<p>This will render a PDF document.</p>
</cfdocument>

It's that easy.

 

I must second the ease of use point. Also, I find CFMX much easier to debug than PHP.

 

Coldfusion has financial backing whereas PHP doesn't.

 

Fantastic ease of use when it comes to database interaction. One of the reason's I've stuck with CF over the years.