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Railo 3 Beginner's Guide

By : Mark Drew , Gert Franz, Paul Klinkenberg, Jordan Michaels
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Railo 3 Beginner's Guide

By: Mark Drew , Gert Franz, Paul Klinkenberg, Jordan Michaels

Overview of this book

<p>Railo Server is one of the quickest ways to start developing complex web applications online. Widely considered as the fastest CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) engine, Railo allows you to create dynamic web pages that can change depending on user input, database lookups, or even the time of day.</p> <p>Railo 3 Beginner's Guide will show you how to get up and running with Railo, as well as developing your web applications with the greatest of ease. You will learn how to install Railo and the basics of CFML to allow you to gradually build up your knowledge, and your dynamic web applications, as the book progresses.</p> <p>Using Packt’s Beginner's Guide approach, this book will guide you, with step-by-step instructions, through installing the Railo Server on various environments. You will learn how to use caches, resources, Event Gateways and special scripting functions that will allow you to create webpages with limitless functionality. You will even explore methods of extending Railo by adding your own tags to the server and building custom extensions. Railo 3 Beginner's Guide is a must for anyone getting to grips with Railo Server.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Railo 3
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Installing extensions


Have you taken a look at the Extension | Applications menu item in the Web and Server administrator yet? It contains tons of useful applications, eagerly waiting to be installed by you:

The previous screenshot shows the list of extensions available in the Railo Web Administrator.

These applications are generally standalone applications that can be installed in the context that the Railo Web Administrator is being used in. For example, we have various frameworks and applications available to us. When you install one of these applications, it will only be available in the context that you have installed it into and not affect other parts of the server.

But what about applications that are not context-specific, for example, if you want to extend the capabilities of the whole server?

These applications are installed from the Railo Server Administrator. They are applications that change or add some behavior to the whole server, and that include all the other contexts that...