Mid November 2006 coldfusion frameworks round up

Below is a rather busy few weeks in the frameworks world. I've been a little ill so this is why this post is rather late this month and it's also why I've paraphrased a lot from remotesynth, I hope you don't mind Brian.

AjaxCFC
Version 1.0 Released
Rob Gonda released AjaxCFC version 1.0 on RIAForge. This release also includes log4javascript integration for enhanced debugging. Rob also updated the Model-Glue and Mach II branches of ajaxCFC.

CFRails
Initial Release
This project by Sam Larbi, and hosted at RIAForge, is intended to be a port of some Ruby on Rails functionality into ColdFusion. The initial release focuses on automating CRUD operations.

ColdBox
ColdBox Google Groups Created!!

I just created the ColdBox Google Groups Mailing List. You can use it for solving issues, bugs, discussions or anything you like. Also, if you forward any messages to bugs@coldboxframework.com and it is a valid bug it will be started as a discussion also if need be. Here is the info: Group name: ColdBox: A ColdFusion Framework Group home page http://groups-beta.google.com/group/coldbox Group email address coldbox@googlegroups.com

Why does ColdBox exist?
Why another framework? ColdBox is another tool for web application development...

Coldspring

Barney Boisvert topic was the ColdSpring Ioc and AOP framework for ColdFusion.

Last night I presented at the Portland CFUG/ASUG about ColdSpring. There were at about 25 people in attendance, both in the room and watching via Breeze. Here’s a link to my presentation files, and Sim will be posted them to the PDXCFUG site as well. He’ll also put up a link to the Breeze preso (we recorded it) for anyone who missed it live.

Fusebox
Version 5.1 in Development
Sean Corfield has started work on version fusebox 5.1 .

This evening I started work on the Fusebox 5.1 release. You can keep an eye on progress by watching the Fusebox 5.1 Milestone report page. You can also see what changes are being made to the source code by browsing the Subversion repository or, if you're feeling adventurous, you can use Subversion to check out the latest version of Fusebox from http://svn.fuseboxframework.org/framework/trunk and then you can help with the testing process for the next release.

LiteWire
Peter Bell has released an Alpha version of LightWire which is a light weight dependency injection engine.

It's still early stages, it's starting to get some interest from testers and Peter thinks this might find itself a nice little niche for people who prefer a lightweight DI framework with a programmatic config file optimized for DI into transients as well as singletons. He's also going to be adding some Spring 2.0 features so watch his space.

Model-Glue
New Configuration File
Joe Rinehart solicits discussion on some updates to the configuration file for Unity that adds a lot of inline documentation through commenting.

Cairngorm for Model-Glue Developers
Joe Rinehart is doing a series introducing the Cairngorm Flex RIA framework to CF developers familiar with his Model-Glue framework.

Ray Camden covers Handling unknown events in Model-Glue

From http://corfield.org/entry/ColdSpring_gets_import_tag

ColdSpring now has an import tag, just like Spring thanks to Jared Rypka-Hauer. This will actually be very useful in my project: we have multiple ColdSpring XML files and right now we have a central CFML page that creates the factory bean and includes all of the XML files using the loadBeans() method calls. With the import tag, we can replace all of that code with a single loadBeans() call and have the main XML import all of the other XML files.

Mach II
Updated FAQ's
Peter Farrell updated the FAQ's for Mach II, including the changes in version 1.1.1.

Reactor
Using Reactor as a Gateway Factory
Dave Shuck offers a tutorial on how you would create Reactor generated gateways to be used as singletons within your project to help improve performance.

Transfer
0.6 RC1 Released
Mark Mandel released release candidate 1 of his ORM project. Some features to note (among many) are Oracle support, lazy loading and decorators (for a full list check his post).

Remote Synthesis: Mark Mandel Transfer ORM Breeze Presentation