Coldfusion frameworks round up October End 2006

It's been rather a busy couple of weeks for Frameworks, a few new releases/updates. It's becoming an exciting time. Fusebox 5 and Lexicons will be shown off at cfDevcon next Thursday. If you want to win a ticket for cfDevcon click here for more details.

Remember that there is a cfFrameworks mailing list - it's a little quite at the moment but thats how some like it I guess.

Interviews

Here at cfFrameworks.com we are looking to interview frameworks masters - if you are involved in any frameworks please contact us so we can setup an interview - to everyone else watch this space for the interview to come live.

OnAir

On Remote Synthesis: ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 16 Brian got informed about a new Framework called onAir.:

New Project: onAir Application Framework
Initial Release
Jan Jannek sent me this link to his new framework which he deems a "smart connection framework" which is intended to simplify connecting back-end business logic with rich front-ends built in Ajax, Flex or Laszlo. From his email, it "provides different Request Handlers (XML, XML-RPC, JSON, etc.) which can be accessed from various clients" and even has a "caching and monitoring mechanism which caches method invocation results and keeps track of method callers." Sounds like this might be worth checking out via his svn repository at https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/onair/.

Remote Synthesis: ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 16 - www.remotesynthesis.com/...

Coldbox

ColdBox 1.1.0 Update: ColdBox Reader 1.1.0 Preview
Coldbox 1.1.0 is around the corner and Luis is finishing of the coumentation - if you're not sure what coldbox is take a look at the documentation. Or check out the preview:

You can take a look at the list here: Exceptions List

Guides: Guides

FAQ FAQ

Luis Majano's Java, Coldfusion & More Blog - www.luismajano.com/...

Transfer

Brian Rinaldi makes an excelent post on Mark Mandel's Transfer object-relational mapping software walking through his recent upgrade to the ColdFusion Open Source List.

Mark Mandel releases RC 0.6

I'm very pleased to announce the Release Candidate 1 of 0.6 of Transfer ORM.

Since there has been such a huge leap forward in terms of functionality between 0.5 and 0.6, I decided to run a release candidate for a short while, before releasing a final build of 0.6.

Any and all commentary is welcome on this release, not only bugs, and feature requests , but suggestions on documentation, API, and anywhere else you feel the product could be improved.

Full details can be seen here: http://www.compoundtheory.com/?action=displayPost&ID=162

Project page can be found here: http://www.compoundtheory.com/transfer/

Remote Synthesis: Building an Application with Transfer ORM - www.remotesynthesis.com/...

Mach-II

Users of Mach-II - Take Our Survey!

In an effort to understand the users of Mach-II, we've put together a short survey of questions. We'd appreciate your feedback about the project. We hope to utilize more surveys in the future and are planning to use one to gather data on future enhancements and features for up and coming releases of the framework.

Shuttle.Space - blog.maestropublishing.com/...

Announcing MachBug - The Mach-II Bug Tracker

Today, we are announcing the MachBug project. MachBug is a bug tracker written primarily in ColdFusion and utilizing the Mach-II Framework, ColdSpring Framework, Flex 2, and the Spry Framework for AJAX. It will be a showcase for how a good number of up-and-coming Adobe technologies can be used in combination and complement each other within the same application.

InfoAccelerator: Announcing MachBug - The Mach-II Bug Tracker - www.infoaccelerator.net

Discussion Group Moved to Google Groups

Matt Woodward's post informs everyone that the Mach ii list has moved from Topica to Google Groups and can be found here.

FarCry

FarCry 4.0 Beta (code-named Gonzales) has been released to the public for Beta testing (currently from SVN).

So what's changed? This release was aimed at developer improvements (although the user hasn't been forgotten).

Pop over to his blog to see details

ColdFusion : Jeff Coughlin's ColdFusion Blog: FarCry 4.0 Beta Released - www.jeffcoughlin.com/...

Model Glue

Unity Breezo
Steve "Cutter" Blades gave a presentation on Model-Glue:Unity to the Nashville CFUG. Joe Rinehart watched the Breezo and gave it the thumbs up.

For his first presentation Steve does great! Well worth a watch.

For anyone interested, here's the archived presentation:
http://mmusergroup.adobe.acrobat.com/p45277812/

LightWire

Brian R has been toying with Peter Bells LightWire lightweight dependency-injection framework.

For handling a concept that sounds complicated, LightWire is pretty simple. The component itself was pretty short and I actually managed to shorten it further I believe by simply cleaning up some code issues. Nonetheless, it did exactly what it advertised with almost no overhead, performance-wise. Granted, this does not have anything near the feature-set of ColdSpring, but it it achieves the basic necessities very simply and efficiently (it is nothing more than a single component and programmatic config file).

Remote Synthesis: Examining LightWire Dependency Injection - www.remotesynthesis.com/...

AjaxCFC

AjaxCFC has reached version 1 and has been moved to RIAForge.

What is AjaxCFC?

AjaxCFC is a ColdFusion framework meant to speed up ajax application development and deployment by providing developers seamless integration between JavaScript and ColdFusion, and providing built-in functions, such as security and debugging, to quickly adapt to any type of environment and helping to overcome cross-browser compatibility problems.

Rob

General

Sean Corfield shows his support towards frameworks in his comments on Andy Jarretts post (A framework post, but without opinons)

I'm a strong advocate of frameworks but of *all* frameworks - I believe a well-designed model can be moved between frameworks easily and that views are also, for the most part, framework-neutral as well.

I think people need to get over any stigma they feel is attached to any given framework and treat them simply as tools to help them get their job done faster.

A framework post, but without opinons: Andy Jarrett - ColdFusion, Google, and everything web - www.andyjarrett.co.uk/...

Frameworks Poll

The frameworks poll has picked up a few votes, please vote if you've not alreay. The results can be seen here