Considering Prewritten Commerce Applications
The goal of today's lesson is to acquaint you with the ColdFusion concepts behind e-commerce, but it's also important to know that you don't have to redesign the wheel when creating a commerce-ready site. As Web stores have become fairly common, many third-party developers have stepped in by providing complete applications that are written for ColdFusion.
To see some examples of prewritten applications available for free or for purchase, point your browser to Allaire's Web site and check out the application gallery:
http://www.allaire.com/developer/gallery/index.cfm
There you'll find several store applications ranging in sophistication and price. Most of the better applications feature an "example" ...
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