Cold Fusion & Microsoft Access?

[Greg Patterson]

I have used Cold Fusion to mount a Microsoft Access database on a Web
platform and found it to be a very useful product. The best way to check if
it is what you want is to try it out, particularly in terms of the amount of
work you expect it to do. Allaire has a fully functional 30 day trial version
that you can download from their Web site (www.allaire.com).

My experience with Cold Fusion has been positive and this has been confirmed
by most, if not all of the reviews I have seen for this product. You can use
the wizards or tweak the code through a text editor. Its markup language
(cfml)  uses a combination of HTML and SQL-like queries and is relatively
easy to manipulate.

The online help is not as good as it could be, but the manuals shipped with
the CD-ROM are very good. There also are a number of books available on the
market, an example is Cold Fusion Intranet Development Kit by John R.
Desborough.  I have seen others as well.

Hope this helps.

Julie Castelluzzo wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm interested in hearing from those of you who have used Cold Fusion to
> put a Microsoft Access database on the web. Any comments, positive or
> negative, would be helpful. We are in the process of making a decision on
> software to use, and this is one possible combinations
>
> The purpose of the project is to allow the users in our
> domain (Intranet) to search the database and display records using their
> web browser. This will not be a high-traffic application, and the users
> will be searching a copy of the database, not the master database.
>
> Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom you can give. Feel free to
> respond to me directly, and I'll be happy to summarize for the list.
>
> Julie
>
> Julie Castelluzzo          juliec at cooper.edu
> Electronic Services Librarian
> The Cooper Union Library   www.cooper.edu/facilities/library/library.html