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12 Days of BoxLang - Day 4: TestBox
Today we’re celebrating one of the most exciting new additions to the BoxLang ecosystem:
the TestBox BoxLang CLI Runner — a fast, native way to run your TestBox tests directly through the BoxLang Runtime. ⚡
No server required. No CommandBox needed. Just pure, ultra-fast BoxLang-powered testing from the command lineon Windows, Mac, and Linux.
If you’re building modern applications with BoxLang — web apps, CLIs, serverless functions, Android apps, or OS-level utilities — this new feature gives you a unified, flexible testing workflow you can run anywhere.
Victor Campos
Victor Campos
December
13,
2025
12 days of BoxLang - Day 3: SocketBox!
As BoxLang continues evolving into a modern, high-performance, JVM-based runtime, real-time communication becomes essential for the applications we all want to build: dashboards, collaboration tools, notifications, live feeds, multiplayer features, and more.
That’s where SocketBox steps in — the WebSocket upgrade listener built to work seamlessly with CommandBox and the BoxLang MiniServer. ⚡
Today, for Day 3, we’re highlighting how SocketBox supercharges BoxLang development by giving you fast, flexible, and framework-agnostic WebSocket capabilities.
Maria Jose Herrera
Maria Jose Herrera
December
12,
2025
12 Days of BoxLang - Day 2: CommandBox
BoxLang + CommandBox: The Enterprise Engine Behind Your Deployments
For Day 2 of our 12 Days of Christmas series, we’re diving into one of the most powerful parts of the BoxLang ecosystem: CommandBox the defacto enterprise servlet deployment platform for BoxLang.
If BoxLang is the language powering your applications, CommandBox is the engine room behind it all. ⚙️
Victor Campos
Victor Campos
December
11,
2025
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May 14, 2008 16:56:20 UTC
by O?uz Demirkap?
Hi Luis, There was a discussion in OpenBD list about the application naming in ColdBox which can cause problems etc. Have you already seen it?
May 14, 2008 16:59:23 UTC
by O?uz Demirkap?
You can check out the list here. http://groups.google.com/group/openbd
May 14, 2008 16:59:53 UTC
by Luis Majano
Yes, BD doesn't like dashes or spaces. Again, the naming of the Application.cfc is given with a default of a hash that does not use spaces or dashes. The cfthreads also do not use dashes or spaces, this was done for BD capabilities in 2.5. So they should hold true. So far, I haven't run into any issues, apart from the server.coldfusion.productversion fix that was committed.
May 14, 2008 20:31:09 UTC
by Chris
I have tried Coldbox on Open BlueDragon and it takes like 3 minutes to load and once it loads the sample files, it is just a blank screen....No errors or anything.
Aug 15, 2008 10:57:58 UTC
by Art
Coldbox is cool <a href="http://www.emergencysoft.com>Emergency Soft</a>
Oct 25, 2010 10:15:55 UTC
by goransv
Sorry to say but coldbox no longer works on Open Bd (OBD 1.3/Tomcat). Everything seems broken in CB 3.0 (M6.2-318-GENESIS-14:14).