ColdFusion Markup Language

ColdFusion Markup Language, usually called CFML, is a scripting language for building web applications. Despite its name it is not a markup language. CFML tags look like HTML tags and sit inside ordinary web pages, where a server-side engine processes them and hands the surrounding text back to the web server unchanged. The same code can also be written as CFScript, which resembles JavaScript, and developers can package business logic in ColdFusion Components, which are CFML's form of objects. The language began as Cold Fusion, created by the Allaire Corporation in 1995, and later passed to Macromedia in 2001 and to Adobe in 2005. Several engines run it on the Java virtual machine, among them Adobe ColdFusion, Lucee, Railo and BlueDragon, and a community effort around the language grew after Railo opened its source in 2009.