ColdFusion is implemented on the J2EE. J2EE is a standard, it is not a programming language. J2EE is an implementation of the Java programming language, but includes a number of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for connecting to databases, queuing messages, connecting to registries and naming and directory services.

All of these APIs are used by coldfusion for many of its base services and other runtime services.

ColdFusion consists of following components:

► cf script

► CFML

► ColdFusion Administrator

► Verity Search Server