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You can head over at CFDJ for a great frameworks article by Faisal Abid : Frameworks, Frameworks, Frameworks http://cfdj.sys-con.com/read/317576.htm It talks about why frameworks should be used, their role and how they can help application development. The article mentions ColdBox and some of its features.

For those of you interested in testing the upcoming 1.2.0 ColdBox release, please download it from the repository and give me your feedback. I have just finished uploading a stable version. Some of the new and interesting features are the following:

ColdBox Event Handler Caching

If you thought that ColdBox was a fast framework, well it just got faster. With the flick of a new setting HandlerCaching your application will cache the event handlers. This o...

Finally you can test drive the up and coming ColdBox 1.2.0. There are so many improvements and enhancements to list here. Below is a sample of the readme. The most notable improvements are IoC integration (coldspring/lightwire), ColdBox in-memory caching manager for event handler caching, plugin caching, custom plugin caching and custom data caching (Event template caching is coming...). The cache is unique, since it displays in the debugging panel the effectiveness of the cache in hits and...

The new cfc api for the framework is now available at http://www.coldboxframework.com/documents/cfdocs/ Please head over there to see all the documentation on the new methods, etc. As always, please report any bugs on the forums or to bugs@coldboxframework.com

I had forgotten to extract some documentation from the compatability guide that is no longer in play for the beta. If you have started to read the guide, please do so now. I have updated the wiki and the pdf in the download.

Hi Folks! I was just informed by my Trac host that I now have PDF generation on the wiki. So I just wanted to share the good news. You can find the trac site at the following address: ColdBox Trac Site So now you can download the content in PDF. Just scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and you will see the "Download in other formats: Plain Text | PDF" Now you can archive the docs. Thanks.

Below you can find a link to the last know issues for the 1.2.0 beta release: Last Known Issues And you can also subscribe to it via RSS through the link below: Last Know Issues RSS Feed Thanks again for your support and hope to hear some feedback from you guys. Please be patient with me as I update the docs for thi...

I just updated the forums to include the latest beta build of ColdBox 1.2.0 - Build 446. So please Click Here To Get It All the know issues for the previous build have been resolved and more extra features have been added. The documentation has been rolling along and I have updated a major part of the Trac wiki. I will be updating a special guide on caching....

I think that a standard is arising on the way a method is injected with a request bus. My naming was requestContext and I believe mach-ii and fusebox use both event. I think it would be benefitial for developers for me to change this to event. What are your thoughts on this? This would help if a developer wants to switch from one framework to another or doing a transition, if some of the similar elements shared in an MVC framework can remain the same. I a...

I just realized that I had changed some of the files for the 1.1.0 download, and all were downloading zero byte downloads. I apologize for the inconvenience. The downloads are back online.