ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 16
Posted on Oct 16, 2006
So much news this week... First, there are a number of new projects which look promising. Count 'em - six new projects...and, to be honest, I weeded out a number of interesting things that came up on CF-Talk due to lack of space and time. Also, as I posted earlier this week, the new version of the open source list has bee posted. Under the covers this was a complete rewrite with Mach II, ColdSpring and Transfer, but even "above the covers" it has a revised UI (feel free to share your feedback). Anyway, let's get to the new projects...New Project: onAir Application Framework
Initial Release
Jan Jannek sent me this link to his new framework which he deems a "smart connection framework" which is intended to simplify connecting back-end business logic with rich front-ends built in Ajax, Flex or Laszlo. From his email, it "provides different Request Handlers (XML, XML-RPC, JSON, etc.) which can be accessed from various clients" and even has a " caching and monitoring mechanism which caches method invocation results and keeps track of method callers." Sounds like this might be worth checking out via his svn repository at https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/onair/.
New Project: HomePortals Personal Edition
Initial Beta Release
HomePortals is a free, but lightweight version of CFEmpire Corp's portal server / content management system (this is free for non-commercial use but not open source). Oscar Arevalo has stated that they will provide the source for several of the modules allow to modify and share portions of the tool.
New Project: ColdFusion Yahoo! Package
Initial Release
Raymond Camden posted an initial, early release of an API he built in CF for various Yahoo! web services; for example, there is a map api and a traffic api. If you are interested, you should probably check his most recent release which has some new features and bug fixes.
New Project: Closures for ColdFusion
Closures Updated
Sean Corfield's new project ports the concept of closures into CF. Don't know what closures are? Check out Barney Boisvert's post on To Closure or Not to Closure. Also, if you are looking for svn access to Sean's projects, he has moved them to Google's code hosting.
New Project: CFTemplate
Initial Release
Peter Bell has created an early stage application for dynamically generating code based upon a simple templating system. While this is still in its early stages (and Peter's admits it is pretty basic at this point), it definitely has some interesting potential.
New Project (proposed): i3SiteTools
Open-sourcing of Project in Process
Digital Positions is in the process of making their site management system open-source, though this isn't expected to happen until early next year. They currently have a small, all-local beta testing group, but are open to people who express an interest in the product and would want to participate.
Reactor
Development Updates
Doug hughes covers months of Reactor happenings in this post, including bug fix work being done by Beth Bowden and a lot of work towards improving performance. Doug admits that there is still work to be done performance-wise but says that the framework has taken great strides with a number of the changes he has made. One of these changes is making Reactor duck-typed. Anyone who follows the Reactor list knows that this continues to be one of the most active and evolving projects in CF open-source.
DataMgr
Version 2.0 Beta
Steve Bryant released the version 2.0 beta of his "ActiveSchema" data management project. Some of the new features include the ability to manage relationships, specialized data types, a built-in query simulator, logging and much more (check out the post for a more complete list).
MailerCFC
Version 1.0 and Email Logging
Steve Bryant has added logging to his email handling component and labeled the current version 1.0. The email logging feature does require the use of his DataMgr component, but that isn't required for general use of the component.
Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Transfer ORM Templates Added
I committed a set of alternate templates that will generate code for use with the Transfer ORM project. This means no bean or DAO, however it does generate the Transfer config snippet, ColdSpring snippet and service component that utilizes Transfer.
AVBlog
XMLPRC Support
Andrea Veggiani has added XMLRPC support to his blogging application to allow publishing via tools like Contribute and Google Docs. This will be part of the 1.5 release that he expects later this month.
Lighthouse Pro
Small Update
Ray Camden has made some minor improvements to his bug tracking tool.
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