Overview

ColdFusion services in Windows

The ColdFusion installation creates the following services in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003:

 

Service

Description

ColdFusion 8 Application Server

The main ColdFusion service. ColdFusion pages cannot be processed if this service is not running.

 

Note: This does not apply when deploying ColdFusion on a J2EE server.

ColdFusion 8 .NET extension

The extension that lets you access .NET assembly classes as ColdFusion objects. Uses Java proxies to represent the .NET classes on the ColdFusion system, and requires that the ColdFusion .NET-side agent run on the system where the assemblies are located.

ColdFusion 8 ODBC Agent

The service that configures data sources for the ColdFusion ODBC Server.

ColdFusion 8 ODBC Server

The middle-tier service for ODBC connections that use the ColdFusion DataDirect drivers for Microsoft Access and ODBC Socket.

ColdFusion 8 Search Server

Manages and controls configuration and services of a Verity K2 domain. This service invokes k2admin.exe, which invokes k2server.exe and k2index.exe.

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