ColdBox Platform

ColdBox Platform
Original author(s) Ortus Solutions, Corp
Initial release June 15, 2006 (2006-06-15)
Stable release
4.3.0 / October 19, 2016 (2016-10-19)[1]
Repository github.com/coldbox/coldbox-platform
Development status Active
Written in CFML, Java
Type Web application framework
License Apache License v2
Website www.ortussolutions.com/products/coldbox

ColdBox is an open-source, conventions-based, modular web application framework intended for building enterprise applications with CFML. ColdBox uses Convention over configuration and aims for simplicity, rapid development. It makes use of Model-view-controller, Dependency injection, Unit testing, Aspect-oriented programming architectural patterns. ColdBox allows for development of stand-alone modules which can be shared across apps. ColdBox is an active and heavily documented CFML framework.[2]

History

Platforms

Coldbox is supported on Lucee, Railo (Two popular open source CFML engines) and Adobe's Coldfusion application servers.

It has supported IDE plugins for, Sublime Text, Eclipse IDE, Adobe ColdFusion Builder.

Usage

Below is a list of some notable users of the Coldbox Platform.[5]

Overview

High-level attributes of ColdBox:

Internal Frameworks

The ColdBox Platform comprises three independent frameworks:

Controllers

ColdBox is conventions-based framework that is programmed in CFML, differing from other CFML MVC frameworks that use XML declarative logic for their controllers.

Below is an example of a controller:

component{

	// Use Dependency injection for hibernate based virtual services
	property name="userService" inject="entityservice:User";
	
	/**
	* Return immediate HTML
	*/
	function sayHello(event){
	 	return "hello";
	}

	/**
	* Return immediate JSON
	*/
	function sayHello(event){
	 	return serializeJSON( userService.get( rc.id ).getMemento() );
	}
	
	/**
	* Return content in multiple formats
	*/
	function list(event){
		prc.data = userService.list();
	 	// render out all users in json format
		event.renderData( data=prc.data, formats="json,xml,pdf,html" );
	}
}

URL Mappings

ColdBox supports URL mappings and routing Rails style but adapted for ColdFusion. It also supports the creation of RESTful routing:

addRoute(
	pattern="api/user/:username",
	handler="user",
	action={
		get='list', 
		post='create', 
		put='update', 
		delete='remove'
	}
);

RESTful URLs

ColdBox allows for easy creation of RESTful URLs via URL mappings and extension detection. Natively ColdBox can detect any extension when supplied to an URI resource:

http://api.coldbox.org/rest/user/lui.json
http://api.coldbox.org/rest/user/lui.xml

It allows for the detection of such extensions, security around them and the ability to customize the extensions.

Ajax support

ColdBox supports all JavaScript frameworks that provide Ajax capabilities. It also provides an auto-marshalling function to render any object to the following formats natively: XML, WDDX, JSON, JSONP, TEXT, PDF, CUSTOM.

SOAP-Adobe Flex/Air Support

ColdBox offers support for creating, monitoring and developing SOAP web services and Flex/Air remote components. It allows for having one development paradigm for multiple GUI interfaces.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-430-released
  2. ↑ ColdFusion MVC Framework
  3. ↑ https://www.ortussolutions.com/blog/coldbox-420-released
  4. ↑ http://www.opencfmlfoundation.org/projects/coldbox/
  5. ↑ http://www.ortussolutions.com/products/coldbox#overview
  6. ↑ How do you build a RESTful service in ColdFusion
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