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In layman’s terms, Cold Fusion is a language. Cold Fusion is based on Standard HTML Language. It is used to create dynamic WebPages that can be linked to any databases.

Cold Fusion is an application server and software language used for Internet application development such as for dynamically-generated web sites. Cold Fusion being a programming language can be similar product to Microsoft Active Server Pages, Java Server Pages or PHP. Amongst all the technologies available, Cold Fusion was the first that provided developer the capability to create dynamic WebPages. The first version of Cold Fusion (then called Cold Fusion) was released on July 10, 1995, written almost entirely by one person, JJ Allaire. Primitive by modern standards, early versions of Cold Fusion did little more than database access.

Cold Fusion is simply a collection of pages like static websites. Cold Fusion is similar to HTML in syntax. Along with HTML, the main distinguishing feature of Cold Fusion is its associated scripting language, server-side Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML) which can be compared with JSP, ASP or PHP indeed. In addition to CFML, Cold Fusion scripts can also be written in a language resembling Java Scripts which is known as CFScript.

Cold Fusion allows us creating applications as easier as creating a static website. However, it provides the fabulous range of functionality that is not available with either static web pages or general client/server applications.

Cold Fusion Application Server automatically pre-processes a page in a Cold Fusion application once requested by a browser. Based on the CFML in the webpage, the Application Server executes the application logic, interacts with other server technologies, and then dynamically generates an HTML page which is returned to the browser. In other words, it is a technology that includes integrating an incredible range of server technologies, controlling the behavior of applications and dynamically generating the content that is returned to the Web Browser.

Nowadays, Coldfusion Hosting seems to be much popular amongst Web Hosting companies as well as those who use hosting services.