Editing Adobe ColdFusion (section)

{{short description|Rapid Web app development platform}}
{{About|the Adobe server platform|the programming language|CFML||Cold Fusion (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = Adobe ColdFusion
| logo                   = Adobe ColdFusion logo 2021.svg
| developer              = [[Adobe Systems]] Incorporated
| author                 = [[Joseph J. Allaire|J. J. Allaire]]
| released               = {{Start date and age|1995}}
| ver layout = stacked
| latest release version = {{Latest stable software release/Adobe ColdFusion}}
| language               = English
| genre                  = [[Application server]]
| programming language   = [[Java (programming language)|Java]]
| operating system       = [[Cross-platform]]<!--Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X-->
| license                = Proprietary
| website                = {{URL|https://adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family.html}}
}}

Adobe '''ColdFusion''' is a commercial [[rapid application development|rapid web-application development]] computing platform created by [[Joseph J. Allaire|J. J. Allaire]] in 1995.<ref>
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*{{cite web|url=http://coldfusion.adobe.com/coldfusion/TurningUpTheHeat.pdf|title=Turning Up the Heat on Mobile Application Development with ColdFusion 11|work=IDC White Paper|date=January 2015|access-date=2015-11-02|first=Al|last=Hilwa|archive-date=2015-09-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916111733/http://coldfusion.adobe.com/coldfusion/TurningUpTheHeat.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> (The [[programming language]] used with that platform is also commonly called ColdFusion, though is more accurately known as [[CFML]].) ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple [[HTML]] pages to a [[database]]. By version 2 (1996) it had become a full platform that included an [[Integrated development environment|IDE]] in addition to a full [[scripting language]].