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12 Days of BoxLang - Day 12: BoxLang Pionner Program

Maria Jose Herrera |  December 23, 2025

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As we close out our 12 Days of BoxLang Christmas, we’re ending with something truly special — something built for early adopters, innovators, and teams who want to modernize confidently as we move into 2026.

Today, we’re excited to officially announce the BoxLang Pioneer Program.

This program is your opportunity to work closely with the BoxLang team, influence the roadmap, test new capabilities early, and prepare your applications for the next generation of JVM development.

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Day 11 BoxLang SOAP: Enterprise Integrations Made Simple! 🎄

Maria Jose Herrera |  December 22, 2025

As we head toward 2026, modern platforms still need to speak the language of the enterprise.

And in many organizations, that language is still SOAP.

With BoxLang 1.8.0, SOAP web services are no longer something you “tolerate” — they’re something you can work with fluently, safely, and cleanly.

Today, we’re exploring BoxLang’s native SOAP client, designed to make consuming SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 services feel natural, modern, and predictable.

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12 Days of BoxLang - Day 10 BoxLang Miniserver 🎄

Maria Jose Herrera |  December 20, 2025

Day 10: BoxLang MiniServer: Lightning-Fast Web Apps, Simplified

As we head into 2026, speed, simplicity, and flexibility matter more than ever. That’s why today’s ...

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12 Days of BoxLang - Day 9: BoxLang Runtimes

Maria Jose Herrera |  December 19, 2025

One of BoxLang’s biggest superpowers is its ability to run on multiple runtimes, from desktop to cloud to serverless. Whether you're building web apps, CLIs, microservices, or embedded Java integrations, BoxLang adapts to your environment — not the other way around.

Today, for Day 9 of our 12 Days of Christmas, we’re exploring the entire collection of official BoxLang runtimes and how to get started with them. ⭐️

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Recap: Modernize or Die Podcast Ep. 246

Victor Campos |  December 18, 2025

In this holiday episode of the Modernize or Die Podcast, hosts Daniel Garcia, Eric Peterson, and Luis Majano reflect on the year’s achievements, particularly focusing on the advancements in BoxLang, including the release of version 1.8 and the introduction of BoxLang AI. They discuss the performance improvements, the revival of DocBox for documentation, and the exciting future plans for the community, including upcoming webinars and a bootcamp for BoxLang AI. The conversation emphasizes the importance of community engagement and the continuous evolution of technology in the software development landscape.

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12 Days of BoxLang - Day 8: BoxLang Modules

Maria Jose Herrera |  December 18, 2025

One of BoxLang’s greatest strengths is its modular, extensible ecosystem.

From AI to databases, security, UI, file handling, and enterprise integrations the BoxLang Module Library lets you plug in exactly what your application needs.

Today, we’re highlighting the official 33 BoxLang modules, available across both open-source and BoxLang+/++ tiers.

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12 Days of BoxLang - Day 7: BoxLang IDE

Maria Jose Herrera |  December 17, 2025

Today we’re highlighting one of the most important pieces of the BoxLang ecosystem: the official BoxLang IDE extension. Built for VS Code (and all compatible editors), it delivers full language support, debugging, AI-powered coding, and the complete toolchain you need for modern BoxLang development.

Whether you're building fresh applications or migrating from CFML, the BoxLang IDE gives you everything in one place — fast, familiar, and deeply productive.

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12 Days of BoxLang - Day 6: BoxLang AI

Maria Jose Herrera |  December 16, 2025

BoxLang AI gives you a unified, consistent way to work with Large Language Models—across multiple providers—using a single functional and fluent API. Build AI-powered features directly into your BoxLang apps without juggling different SDKs, formats, or request models.

You can also extend capabilities with bx-aiplus, part of our BoxLang + / ++ subscriptions, which adds more providers, advanced features, and enhancements.

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12 Days of BoxLang - Day 5: Cloud Servers

Maria Jose Herrera |  December 15, 2025

One of the most powerful parts of the BoxLang ecosystem is how easily it can run anywhere — locally, on-premise, containers, and especially in the cloud. Today we’re highlighting BoxLang Cloud Servers, our official, optimized virtual machines available across major cloud platforms. ☁️⚡

If you’re building BoxLang, ColdBox, or CommandBox applications, these cloud-ready images give you a fast, secure, and scalable way to deploy your apps with minimal configuration and maximum performance.

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12 Days of BoxLang - Day 4: TestBox

Maria Jose Herrera |  December 13, 2025

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.

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