Lucee Syntax

Lucee Server language & environment reference

CFML language in Lucee Server

Lucee Language and Syntax Differences

Member functions

Reserved Words

Operators

General deviations from CFML Standards

directory-placeholders

Scopes

CFML tags

Tags

CFML functions

Functions

UnSupported CFML

Unsupported Tags & Functions

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  • Lucee Server language & environment reference

    • Description of Lucee Server language features
    • Reserved words
    • General differences between ACF & Lucee Server
    • Tags
    • Functions
    • Application.cfc & application settings

  • Concepts

    • Application Lifecycle

    • Mail (i.e. cfmail, cfpop, cfimap, mail-related tips)

    • Caching

      • Template caching
      • Partial template caching
      • User caches
      • Query caching
      • Page pool

    Both currently on tips and tricks page.

    • Database access & datasources

    • Exception handling

    • Locking

    • Threading

    • Scheduling

    • Serialising data

    • Object-oriented CFML

      • Lucee Server magic functions
      • Implicit conversions

    • ORM

    • ReST Services

    • Event gateways

    • Using Lucee Server virtual filesystems

    • Lucee-Server-only concepts

      • Lucee Server resource bundles
      • Working with Resources and Mappings

    • Writing CFScript vs Tags

      • CFScript based tags

    • Closures

    • Member functions

    • Enhancing Lucee Server

    • Writing custom tags

      • in CFML
      • in CFScript

    • Creating built-in tags

    • Creating built-in functions

    • Extending Lucee Server with Java

      • Where to install external libraries

    • Extending Lucee Server with CFXs (deprecated really?)

    • Lucee Server Extensions

      • Using Lucee Server Extensions
        • Available extensions
        • CouchDB
        • Membase
        • MongoDB
        • Infinispan
        • etc
      • Building your own extensions

    • Creating your own Event Gateway types

  • Practices

    • Integration with other systems, e.g. databases, message queues & search engines
    • Design patterns
    • Best practices / architectural patterns
    • Using scopes explicitly in code
    • Secure development
    • Unit testing & continuous integration
    • Debugging
    • Changing dump template
    • Editors & IDEs

  • Tutorials & samples

    • Using Java libraries in Lucee Server
    • Sample applications
    • Examplar code samples

See also