Novemeber End 2006 Frameworks Roundup

There is a lot of coldspring and Mach-II news in this round us. Coldspring appears to be getting adapted more and more by developers and with LiteWire giving chance Dependency Injection (DI) is becoming well know.

We have started interviewing some framework Gurus/reviews so watch this space.

cfcUnit
cfcUnit Runner, a Flex application to run cfcUnit tests

ColdSpring
ColdSpring for Beginners Series Part 1
Part 2 - Constructor Injection
Part 3 - Setter Injection
Andy Jarret has written an excellent set of beginner tutorials on ColdSpring.

Passing Properties to ColdSpring
Dan Vega has recently posted on his blog a small tutorial of how to pass properties to ColdSpring. Well worth a look to understand more benefits that dependency injections brings to the table.

A recording of Barneys ColdSpring presentation on ColdSpring Ioc and AOP framework for ColdFusion. Barney has also blogged about his presentation and from it on his site. Download his my presentation files

FarCry
FarCry and Extensibility
Extending the Webtop
A couple of FarCry tutorials from Mark Kruger.

Mach-II
Mach-II 1.1.1 - It's Alive... (Stable Release) Mach-II 1.1.1 Stable has been released! It's been a great release cycle since our last release a year ago. We're already planning the new website and hope to have a beta of 1.5 when the website is finished.

At the request of the Mach-ii guardians the former Mach-II category hosted on Fusebox.org forums has been set to read only in place of their new Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/mach-ii-for-coldfusion

Peter Farrell has been kind enough to share 3 plugins he has developed: sslPlugin, maintenancePlugin and udfsPlugin. Check them out at the Exchange.

Trond Ulseth has written a Mach-II tutorial for Newbies and it's up on http://easycfm.com. It's a good article (though Trond mentions there were some corrections that didn't make it to the published version).

Model-Glue
Important Unity Changes
Joe Rinehart discussed two recent changes he has made to the upcoming Beta 2 release of Model-Glue, including not automatically creating scaffolds and removing resource pooling.

Unity Backwards Compatibility Issues
Ray Camden highlights some changes in Unity that can cause applications written in 1.1 to break when Unity is installed.

Unofficial 1.1 Patch
Nic Tunney has released a "patch" for Model-Glue 1.1 to allow it to support an tag to allow you to break apart the config into usable pieces without requiring absolute file system paths.

SOS [new framework]
John far has credited a new framework called SOS (Servant Oriented Software).He says that the " beauty of a framework is that it uses the technology in a way that matches your developing style and needs".

Download SOS

Again a lot of these notes have been take from the site of Brian Rinaldi.