What are ColdFusion components? What is CFobject?

What are ColdFusion components?

-They are the essential building blocks.
-ColdFusion components are used for creating structured and scalable applications
-Custom components are used to encapsulate the processing, UI abstractions
-CFC are designed for transactions, back-end integration and black-box processing

What is CFobject?

-The <cfobject> tag is used to instantiate a CF Component