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Data from back-end database shoule be displayed to the front-end in a visual way instead of just tabular format. Charting is a one of best data visualization technique. A chart is a graphical representation of data, in which "the data is represented by symbols, such as bars in a bar chart, lines in a line chart, or slices in a pie chart". A chart can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of qualitative structure and provides different info.

ECharts is a set of front-end chart tool library originally developed by Baidu, Inc. Recently it was donated to apache foundation & it is open-sourced under Apache License 2.0. In this blog post, we are going to see how we are going to easily add echart charts to our web page.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in web applications. XSS enables attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same-origin policy. - Ref : Wikipedia

How do you protect your code from Cross Site Scripting (XSS), when your business requirements state that the user must be able to input HTML? This can be a difficult problem to solve and XSS is very difficult to filter against because there are hundreds of attack vectors. One way is to use any one of the industry standard Java Library ( AntiSamy, JSOUP ..etc ) instead of wrote our own custom XSS filtering CFML code. We (at MitrahSoft) prefer to use AntiSamy because of it's flexibility, wide spread usage & support. AntiSamy uses a XML policy file that defines what HTML tags and attributes can be allowed in your application.

End to end browser automation testing using nodejs & testcafe

Lucee administrator API provides lot of opportunity to manipulate the Lucee administrator configurations without using lucee administrator user interface, this can able to acheived by cfadmin tag. This tag is only available in Lucee CFML engine, this is not available in Adobe ColdFusion. We can use this tag for web or server admin contexts using type attribute