Into the Box 2026: Celebrating 20 Years of Ortus, Big Time! 🚀

For two decades, Ortus Solutions has been building, innovating, and empowering developers around the world. What started as a vision to create bet...

TestBox 7.x series continues our mission to be the best testing framework for BoxLang and CFML. This release is focused heavily on BoxLang CLI runner enhancements, real-time streaming test execution via SSE, a powerful dry run capability, the brand-new TestBox RUN web IDE, and significant quality-of-life improvements for developers working in both BoxLang and CFML environments.

Many organizations running CFML applications today face the same challenge.

Their systems still work.

They support core business processes.

They generate revenue.

But at the same time, those platforms are increasingly exposed to risk.

Unsupported runtimes, operational fragility, security exposure, and difficulty integrating with modern systems are becoming more common in environments still running older versions of Adobe ColdFusion or Lucee.

The quest...

Spring Boot developers know the pain of evaluating view technologies. Thymeleaf is great — until you need more expressiveness. FreeMarker is powerful — until the syntax fights you. What if you could write templates in a dynamic JVM language that gives you the full power of the platform, feels natural, and requires zero setup to integrate?

Meet the BoxLang Spring Boot Starter.

The growing need to evolve legacy financial platforms safely

Many Swiss banks and financial institutions still operate important systems built on ColdFusion and CFML platforms.

These systems manage a wide range of functions, including:

• internal banking workflows
• reporting systems
• client portals
• data integration platforms
• compliance and risk management tools

In many cases, thes...

Many ColdFusion environments operate in a reactive mode without realizing it.

Everything seems fine… until something breaks.

A server crashes.

Performance drops suddenly.

An integration stops working.

A security audit reveals missing patches.

At that point the response is urgent:

“Can someone help us fix this now?”

Emergency support is sometimes unavoidable. But when reactive intervention becomes the norm, it usually means something deep...

Every conference is more than just what happens on stage, it’s also about the people working behind the scenes to bring it all together.

Now that the first wave of sessions and workshops for Into the Box 2026 is officially live, we’re thrilled to spotlight some of the speakers who will be part of this year’s experience. From longtime community contributors to hands-on practitioners and members of the Ortus team, this group brings decades of practical expertise in CFML, BoxLang, JVM modernization, testing, AI, and cloud-native development.

We are excited to announce a major new addition to BoxLang Academy: the 7-part video series, Building AI on the JVM: A BoxLang AI Series

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a distant frontier, it’s a core requirement for modern enterprise software. But for JVM developers, the path to integration has often been fragmented. That ends today. With the launch of this s...

If you've been watching the AI-assisted development wave from the sidelines, wondering when it would actually matter for your ColdBox HMVC stack — the wait is over. The latest ColdBox CLI release ships a brand-new ai namespace that transforms how you and your team interact with coding agents like Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini and many more.

This isn't a chatbot integration or a prompt template sitting in a README. This is a full framework-aware AI system built directly into your development workflow.

Many legacy CFML systems do not fail suddenly.

Instead, they slowly become fragile.

At first, the application works. Then small operational issues start appearing: unexpected slowdowns, random restarts, patches applied late at night, fixes that introduce new bugs.

Eventually teams find themselves trapped in what many engineers call “hotfix hell.”

This pattern is common in environments still running:

• Adobe ColdFusion 2021 or earlier<...