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I will be presenting at the ColdFusion meetup group next week Thursday. So please check it out:

http://coldfusion.meetup.com/17/calendar/6710816/

I will be presenting on the up and coming 2.5.0 release, so new features and sneek peeks will be shown. So Please RSVP!!

Thanks to Rob Gonda., ColdBox now has nightly builds. You can download the nightly build from the following location:

http://www.coldboxframework.com/downloads/nightlybuild/coldboxNB.zip

I have added the information to the wiki and will be updating the other locations soon. The task runs at 12:00 AM every day. When you unzip the build, you will see a build file included, so you know which one it is.

Well, my secret project is out of the bag today. I have been working in embedding a remote proxy into ColdBox in order to enable remote applications like Flex and AIR to communicate with ColdBox and provide an event model for our model. If that makes sense!! Well, so what do we get? This feature lets you create an event driven model that can easily be called from any flex/air application. Not only that, but you can reinitialize the entire application, get settings, and yes, announce custom or core interceptions. You can create custom interceptor chains for your model that can be executed asynchronously when a user hits a save record button for example. The possibilities are endless.

Not only that, but this enables you to actually create two front ends using the same reusable ColdBox and model code. The code is the same, you create event handlers, you interact with a request collection, with core and custom plugins, but you don't set views or layouts because the framework is now a remote framework for your model. So what do you do, well, return data, arrays, xml, value objects. Anything, right from withing the event handlers.

Here is the link to the presso I gave at the Melbourne CFUG this past week. It was an awesome presso delivered at my 2AM until 4AM. Thanks Mark, for the invitation.

Anyways, this presso includes the latest 2.5.0 Beta features. A very nice in depth look into the coming version of ColdBox Romans 8:32.

So enjoy:

http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/p40648765/

I am now debugging ColdBox for BlueDragon 7 and came upon an interesting bug that I cannot find a solution for. I am trying to get an iterator out of a linkedHashMap and BD keeps throwing me a Method hasNext could not be legally accessed. Has anybody experienced this? If so, please help.

Below is the current simple code:

//Create HashMap

LinkedHashMap = CreateObject("java","java.util.LinkedHashMap").init(3);

Collections = createObject("java", "java.util.Collections");

//synch it

LinkedHashMap = Collections.synchronizedMap(LinkedHashMap);

//put some elements

LinkedHashMap.put("name","luis");

LinkedHashMap.put("date",now());

//Iterate

iterator = LinkedHashMap.keySet().iterator();

key = "";

/* Loop and execute each interceptor as registered in order */

while( iterator.hasNext() ){

key = iterator.next();

writeoutput(key & "
");

}

Well ladies and gentleman, a new era of ColdBox is here and its called ColdBox 2.5.0 : Romans 8:32

This is a major step forwards for ColdBox and I am proud now to announce all the new features (some are left out for beta 2, hush hush). The new Dashboard is still in construction and not included in this beta. The sample applications are unfinished also, but 2.5.0 compliant.

Here are two new guides and the documentation will start its updating cycle starting today:

Compatibility Guide:

http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbCompatabilityGuide_250

New Interceptors Guide:

http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbInterceptorsGuide

New Request Context Decorators Guide:

http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/cbRequestContextDecoratorGuide

You can find the download in the forums.

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Fixes, Updates and New Features for 2.5.0 : Romans 8:32

- #135 Application.cfc Support, Application.cfm + index.cfm combo still supported but will be deprecated by the 2.7 version. Please update your apps to use the included Application.cfc.

- #163 Project Interceptors : You can now intercept calls in over 12 execution points of a user request,

I will be presenting at the Melbourne CFUG this October 18th on ColdBox. However, it will be on my 2AM, (thanks Mark!!) So I will have to struggle with sleep deprivation for the presentation. You can find more information on the presentation here.

I updated the ColdBox docs api to include ColdBox cache metadata information. It was an easy addition and a great one. Now you can use this to actually document your handlers if you wanted and get the extra ColdBox metadata javadocs style. Below you can see a screenshot.

The project used is CFCDoc and can be found at http://cfcdoc.riaforge.org/. To do the metadata update if you use this great project, you will need to open the doctemplate.cfm found in the templates folder. Look for the following line of code:

The following page has been created in the wiki to host contributed ColdBox plugins, ColdBox Custom Plugins. This will be updated and moved to the ColdBox website as the website is updated and released later this year. However, you now have a location of contributed custom plugins. So if you have any plugins you would like to share with the community, please send them to [email protected] with a description, a license type, and the zip file of your plugin. Thank you so much for contributing!!

Sorry guys, no ColdBox development for about a week and a half!! The wife requires it, now that we are going to Florida for a brothers reunion. So DON"T BOTHER ME!!

Have a great week.