About ColdFusion MX for J2EE

Macromedia ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers enables you to add ColdFusion MX capabilities to your Sun Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server. It is a J2EE application that installs on top of your existing Java application server and provides development, deployment, and management services for ColdFusion applications.

Overview of the J2EE platform

The J2EE platform is a set of detailed specifications and runtime services for developing enterprise applications. A J2EE-compliant application is based on standardized, modular components. J2EE provides these components with a complete set of services, and automatically handles many details of the application behavior; for example, providing pluggable and scalable database connection pooling and transparently managing web session clustering and failover. J2EE provides a security model to protect your data and JDBC, an application programming interface (API) to access your data. Also, J2EE is interoperable with other technologies that follow the same modularized standard; for example, you can use Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), and XML in your applications.

For more information, see http://java.sun.com/j2ee.

Overview of ColdFusion MX for J2EE

The ColdFusion MX for J2EE runtime environment is a Java application that takes advantage of the services in the J2EE platform to connect to databases, manage security, and process application requests. It provides the full scripting environment of Macromedia ColdFusion MX and lets you develop fully featured Rich Internet Applications rapidly and efficiently. When ColdFusion MX for J2EE is installed on top of an existing Java application server, it uses that server's J2EE runtime to compile and execute ColdFusion applications.

For more information about Macromedia ColdFusion MX, see the ColdFusion documentation. For information about differences between the stand-alone ColdFusion MX Server and ColdFusion MX for J2EE on your operating system and application server version, see the following sections in this chapter and Chapter 9, "Differences Between the ColdFusion MX Server and ColdFusion MX for J2EE Application Servers".

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Installing and Using ColdFusion MX for J2EE
Introduction