Adobe ColdFusion

Adobe ColdFusion
Original authorJ. J. Allaire
DeveloperAdobe Systems Incorporated
Initial release1995 (1995)
Stable release(s)
20232023 Update 17  / 9 December 2025 (9 December 2025)
20212021 Update 23  / 9 December 2025 (9 December 2025)
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
Available inEnglish
TypeApplication server
LicenseProprietary
Websitecoldfusion.com

Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web-application development computing platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995. (The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called ColdFusion, though is more accurately known as CFML.) ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database. By version 2 (1996) it had become a full platform that included an IDE in addition to a full scripting language.