CommonSpot Content Server is a 100% browser-based Web content management application built on top of Adobe's ColdFusion application server. All of the application components, except the browser, reside on the server, allowing for cost effective and wide scale deployment. As a ColdFusion based application, CommonSpot is composed of a large number of CFM script modules, along with several custom ColdFusion tags.

The diagram below, along with subsequent high-level component discussions, provides a high level technical overview of a minimal CommonSpot deployment. As is typical of dynamic Web applications, the primary components include:

• an HTTP server
• a ColdFusion Application Server, including CommonSpot server side scripts
• a database repository

Components such as the database repository or e-mail server may reside on the same machine as the HTTP server or may be located on different servers.

For a list of technical requirements for CommonSpot Content Server, click here.