To publish web services for consumption by remote applications, you create the web service using ColdFusion components. For more information on components, see Building and Using ColdFusion Components.
Creating components for web services
Specifying data types of function arguments and return values
Producing WSDL files
Using ColdFusion components to define data types for web services
Publishing document-literal style web services
Securing your web services
Best practices for publishing web services