In this chapter, we're going to talk about forms and how jQuery Mobile enhances them. As part of our discussion, we will be posting our forms to the server. In order to have the server actually do something with the response we're going to make use of an application server from Adobe called ColdFusion. ColdFusion is not free for production use, but is 100% free for development and is a great server for building web applications. You do not need to download ColdFusion. If you do not, the forms you use within this chapter should not be submitted. This chapter does talk about how forms are submitted, but the response to the forms isn't really critical. If you know another language, like PHP, you should be able to simply mimic the code ColdFusion is using to echo back the form data.
ColdFusion (currently version 9) can be downloaded at http://www.adobe.com/go/coldfusion. Versions exist for Windows, OS X, and Linux. As stated above, you can run ColdFusion for free on your development...