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ColdFusion Data Pathways:

Web browser

RDBMS

Ohio

Kentucky

(SQL Server)

(SQL Server)

CF Server

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MIDCARB has successfully linked tabular databases from the five cooperating states using a Web application development tool called ColdFusion. Recently purchased by Macromedia, formerly owned by Alliare, ColdFusion provides the developer with a custom set of html (CFML) tags that allow the developer to easily interact with databases to build dynamic Web pages.

The first report on the previous slide is generated dynamically using a ColdFusion report.

The diagram shows how requests from the Web browser, in this case initiated by clicking on a power plant with the hotlink tool, travel back to the ColdFusion server in Kansas.

The ColdFusion server then queries appropriate databases, in this case the Illinois Oracle database.

Results of the query are returned to the ColdFusion server in Kansas and then delivered as a pure html report to the Web browser.