ColdFusion Main > ColdFusion Articles > New features in ColdFusion MX New features in ColdFusion MXColdFusion MX is a new release of ColdFusion that has been completely redesigned from the ground up. This version of ColdFusion is Java-based, but works almost entirely like the previous versions of ColdFusion. In fact, most applications created in previous versions of ColdFusion will run without modification. One of the biggest new developments in ColdFusion MX is that you can use JSP tag libraries with your ColdFusion pages. This means that a ColdFusion programmer can take advantage of any existing tag libraries, as well as create new ones. This is in addition to all of the ColdFusion tags and COM objects that are already in a ColdFusion programmer's arsenal. Another new, big feature in ColdFusion MX is ColdFusion Components (CFCs). CFCs are self-documenting and self-contained. You can use CFCs through any ColdFusion pages on the ColdFusion server. Other technologies can access your ColdFusion components if you publish them as web services (for instance, a Macromedia Flash application may use a ColdFusion component to run a database query based on a user's request). Create CFCs with the cfcomponent tag, and save them with a CFC extension. Include your CFML logic (such as a cfquery tag, conditional code, and so forth) within a cffunction tag inside of the cfcomponent tag inside the CFC file. Then, any ColdFusion page on your server can call the functions (also called methods) within the CFC. Developing ColdFusion components that produce web services has one major advantage over producing web services in other technologies-you can create a ColdFusion component web service with standard CFML code in a fraction of the time Material courtesy macromedia.com If you are looking for technology partners in ColdFusion, please contact us For more details please visit our ColdFusion Services section. Click here for more ColdFusion articles. 
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