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We are proud to announce today the public release of our product Ortus DataBoss.  We have been working on this product for a few years now and finally it has reached its culmination and is ready available for purchase.  So let me introduce to you our new brain child: DataBoss.

What is DataBoss?

Ortus DataBoss is an application that will help you manage CFML Object Relational Mapper (ORM) objects without the need of writing administrative code for them; thus a Dynamic Administrator.  DataBoss will talk to the underlying ORM engine (Hibernate) and get all the necessary information to manage all the ORM entities and its relationships in that specific CFML application DataBoss has been deployed to.  You can watch our introductory video to get a quick overview of what DataBoss is and how it can benefit your development.

Thanks to team member Sana Ullah, we have upgraded our Groovy Loader project to version 3.0.  This version includes several updates like it sports a new interceptor called GroovyStarter that you can configure in your configuration file and the entire groovy environment will wrap itself and become available in any ColdBox 3.5 application.

Not only that, but now you can also add any amount of java and groovy library locations and the plugin will load them at startup into your application.  These libraries can be Spring, Hibernate, Apache Commons, etc.  Finally, what good is a project without documentation, so we now have the project fully documented: http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Projects:GroovyLoader.cfm

We are proud to announce ColdBox Platform release version 3.6.0 and ColdBox DevBox 2.3. This is an important minor release that addresses many important issues, but also introduces some great enhancements. There are no compatibility updates needed and here are our "What's New" guideline:

• What's new with ColdBox 3.6.0

We are so proud to announce our general availability of ColdBox LITE!  Hmm, what is ColdBox LITE?

ColdBox LITE (CBL) is an MVC framework with a subset of features of the ColdBox Platform that deal with MVC only. Thus, providing a light-weight conventions based MVC framework. Since ColdBox itself is built with modularity, CBL was the last piece we wanted to decouple from the platform to provide yet another standalone library for ColdFusion. CBL focuses on providing developers a light weight MVC engine in two flavors:

• CBL Standard
• CBL Standard with ORM

The ORM flavor includes all of our ORM additions such as Active Entity, ORM base and virtual services, Hibernate criteria and detached criteria builders and ORM Dependency Injection. CBL also includes WireBox as the standard engine that provides access to the model, dependency injection and persistence.

Our engineering team is proud to introduce our ContentBox Utilities extension for Adobe ColdFusion Builder IDE.  This IDE is an incredible IDE for ...

I want to make sure everyone knows about the special ColdBox Connection meeting scheduled this Wednesday at Noon CST.  We'll be unveiling ColdBox Lite, a new way to have excellent MVC conventions for small projects without worrying about depth of the full ColdBox Framework.  What's best, is that you can graduate up to full ColdBox at any time with a single line of code in your Application.cfc.

If that isn't enough to get you there, what if I told you there's also...

ContentBox Modular CMS v1.1.0 has now been released sporting an awesome new datasource and db installer that will make installing ContentBox a breeze, mobile layout detection, layout inheritance, new UI actions and so muc...

We are proud to announce yet another release of our ColdBox Platform version 3.5.3.   This is not only a full platform release but a whole set of releases of all of our internal projects and frameworks.  Here are the releases and their appropriate release information fro...

ColdBox DevBox has now matured and we have a 2.0 released. DevBox is a full open source development stack for ColdBox and ColdBox LITE, ready to go for development in any environment (Windows, Linux, Mac). Just download, click start and get ready to code. This development server is full of goodies from ColdBox sample application...

We are proud to announce yet another ColdBox Platform release version 3.5.3. This is an important patch release that addresses many important issues, but also introduces some great enhancements. This release also encompasses a new WireBox release (v1.6), new CacheBox release (v1.4) and new MockB...