If you haven’t heard about or encountered the ColdBox framework, I highly recommend checking out the latest online framework workshop from cfFrameWorks.com.

Luis Majano gives us a tour of the framework and some of the various tools and features that he’s built. ColdBox is an event driven MVC framework. Some cool things of note:

• Not based on XML dialects
• Includes support for internationalization, caching (which is very cool btw!), debugging tools and logging
• Includes application generation / configuration and unit test generation tools
• The framework documentation is superb, probably the best I have come across

One of the nicest touches is the framework dashboard. The dashboard allows you to auto generate the necessary stubs for a ColdBox application by filling out a simple web form. It even has the facility to check for new releases of the framework and download them!

The scary thing is that Luis mentioned there were plenty more features he could have shown! Which is pretty amazing cosidering the amount of stuff he demonstrated.

I downloaded ColdBox a while ago and never got the chance to create any apps with it, I’ll definitely be making time to do so now!

Check out ColdBox here.