ColdFusion Open-Source Update - September 18
Posted on Sep 18, 2006
Another three new projects were released this week: CFLog4J, CFCBlaster and Purchase Tracker. In addition, Sean Corfield and Mark Mandel have made some exciting updates to Transfer to allow you to integrate it with Model-Glue.New Project: CFLog4J
Initial Release
Qasim Rasheed noted on CF-Talk that he has released a CFC wrapper for Log4J that obviates some limitations he saw in simply using cflog. Specifically, he notes that you can specify the directory for the log file (unlike cflog which must be in the default log directory). It also includes some other additional configurations.
New Project: CFCBlaster
Initial Release
Mike Rankin has built a simple code generator application that generates beans, DAOs and gateways from a MSSQL dsn. Mike notes that you will need to tweak the code output to suit your needs as it assumes the use VSS for instance, but that it should be relatively easy to do.
New Project: Purchase Tracker
Initial Release
Barney Boisvert has released a unique project to track purchases grouped by category, and follow pricing fluctuations in that item over time. It sounds like he has even added some nice features like Ajax integration and the ability to use it as a simple invoicing application.
Transfer
Transfer Updates and News
Mark Mandel discusses the recent buzz surrounding his Transfer ORM project, in large part due to some recent work by Sean Corfield on a Model-Glue adapter(discussed below). Mark also discussed the upcoming v0.6 release, and the improvements/changes it will include.
Transfer and Model-Glue Integration
Sean Corfield has been busy working on integrating Transfer and Model-Glue to work together (his earlier posts: 1 and 2). Mark Mandel has made him a committer on the Transfer project. With his changes were already incorporated into the repository, Sean documents how to configure Model-Glue to user his Transfer ORM integration.
Lighthouse Pro
Version 2.1 Released
The latest version of Ray Camden's bug tracking application was primarily updated by Ron Stewart. Improvements in this release include the ability to edit statuses and severities, some CSS improvements, an email fix and more detailed statistics.
CFUnit
Version 2 Beta Released
Robert Blackburn announced the release of the version 2.0 beta of his unit testing project. In addition to bug fixes and code improvements, this version will officially support BlueDragon. It has also added what Robert calls "inline testing", which means that you can write the unit test code directly inside the component you intend to test.
CFJSON
CFC Version
Andy Powell has created a CFC wrapper for the JSON format implementation for ColdFusion that you can download from his post.
Mach ii
Beta 1 Call for Comments/Bugs
Peter Farrell discussed on the mailing list that Beta 2 should be out early this week and includes only minor cleanup since no major bugs had been submitted. However, Peter was looking specifically for feedback from anyone utlizing the new application.cfc support to assist. Lastly, he discussed his expectation that v1.1.1 will go gold by the end of October.
Fusebox 5
Fusebox Web site Now Runs Version 5
Sean Corfield announces that the Fusebox site is officially running on the recently released Fusebox 5.
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