Build Secure AI Chat Applications with BoxLang, RAG, Ollama, and Amazon Bedrock

AI demos are everywhere. Building an AI-powered featu...

In partnership with El Salvador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ortus Solutions created a space for business leaders, technology teams, universities, professionals, and developers to explore how modern tools can improve productivity, extend existing applications, and make AI adoption more practical

MatchBox makes BoxLang practical for a classic deployment target: the single-file command-line application.

The MatchBox open beta is available at https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/matchbox.

With the MatchBox native target, you can compile a .bxs script into a standalone executable for macOS, Linux, or Windows. The generated binary includes the MatchBox VM core and your compiled BoxLang bytecode. It does not require a JVM, a separate MatchBox install, or any runtime on the target machine.

From Legacy Apps to Agentic AI: Watch Into the Box 2026 On Demand

The full Into the Box 2026 conference experience is now available on demand through CFCasts, bring...

Every enterprise runs on Word documents. Contracts. RFPs. Proposals. Board reports. Offer letters. HR handbooks. Compliance policies. Invoices. Statements of work. Legal memos.

BoxLang 1.15.0 is a high-impact release with two big headlines and a long tail of hardening. The first headline is a massive performance upgrade to string handling: a new first-class BoxStringBuilder type, compile-time literal folding, smarter &= semantics, and a runtime concat strategy that automatically switches to builder-backed accumulation once your expression gets big enough. Your existing string-heavy code just got faster. No rewrites required.

MatchBox includes a native web runtime for building small, fast BoxLang web applications without requiring a JVM or a traditional servlet container. You can follow the MatchBox open beta at https://github.com/ortus-boxlang/matchbox. There are two related pieces in the beta today: a webroot server for .bxm templates and static assets, and a routed app server built around web.server(). Both are early, but they show the direction clearly: BoxLang should be able to serve HTTP from a compact native runtime when the application does not need the full JVM stack.

July was packed with exciting advancements across the Ortus ecosystem, bringing new BoxLang releases, powerful developer tools, and continued innovation in AI and multi-runtime development.

CFCamp 2026 was an important milestone for the Ortus Solutions team and for the growing BoxLang ecosystem.

This year, Ortus Solutions participated as a Platinum Sponsor and had the honor of leading the official Keynote, where Luis Majano, Brad Wood, and Jacob Beers shared major updates around ColdBox, BoxLang, AI, and multi-runtime support.

The message was clear: the CFML ecosystem is not standing still. With BoxLang, ColdBox, C...