Welcome to ColdBox:

A next generation Framework and Development Toolkit

This website is used for development management of the ColdBox ColdFusion Framework. If you would like to report a bug for ColdBox, please do so by posting it on the Online Forums or email it to bugs@coldboxframework.com. The ColdBox Framework is a copyright software by Luis Majano and Ortus Solutions, Corp. (http://www.luismajano.com | http://www.ortussolutions.com)

This project survives thanks to your donations. So please Donate To The ColdBox Framework or you can visit My Amazon Wishlist

Documentation in your language

The official ColdBox documentation is in English and is found below this language section. The documentation is also being translated to many other languages that you can find in the following links. If you would like to contribute your translation services, please email us at info@coldboxframework.com.

• Español by Luis Majano
• Japanese (日本語) by Katsuyuki Sakai

Basic Information

• System Requirements
• Latest Release Notes
• License Agreement
• Credits
• FAQ-Frequently Asked Questions

What's New ?

These guides are to showcase the new upcoming features of ColdBox versions.

• What's New with 2.6.2
• What's New with 2.6.1
• What's New with 2.6.0
• What's New with 2.5.2
• What's New with 2.5.0

Compatibility Guides

These guides are to help developers migrate to new versions of the framework.

• Compatibility Guide from pre 2.6.0 applications (2.5.0 - 2.5.2)
• Compatibility Guide from pre 2.5.0 applications (2.0.0 - 2.0.3)
• Compatibility Guide from pre 2.0.0 applications to 2.X.X

Installation

• Installation Guide
• Upgrading Guide
• Framework Refactoring Guide
• Eclipse Plugins Guide
• Installing Syntax Dictionaries

Introduction

• ColdBox Overview
• Supported Features & Capabilities
• Application Life Cycle
• Model-View-Controller
• CFC Best Practices

Configuration & Conventions

• Directory Structure & Conventions Guide
• Framework Settings Guide
• Configuration File Guide (coldbox.xml.cfm & config.xml.cfm)

Getting Started

• My First ColdBox Application
• URL Actions Guide
• Request Context Guide
• Event Handlers Guide
• Layouts & Views Guide
• Event, View, Object & Data Caching Guide
• Request Context Decorator Guide
• Unit Testing Handlers Guide
• ColdBox-Ajax Integration Guide

Extensions: Plugins, Interceptors and more

• Plugins Guide
  • ColdBox-ColdSpring Integration Guide
  • ColdBox-LightWire Integration Guide
  • Internationalization Guide (i18n)
  • RSS Reader and RSS Generator

• Interceptors Guide
  • Pretty URL's via SES Interceptor
  • Environment Control Interceptor : Per-Environment Settings
  • Autowire Interceptor
  • Security Interceptor: Securing your applications
  • ColdBox SideBar

• Using Helper UDF's and CFC's
• Transfer ORM Extras

Remote Framework

• ColdBox Proxy Guide

Hands On Guides

• My First Event Handler
• My First Custom Exception Handler
• My First Custom Plugin
• My First Interceptor
• My First Request Context Decorator
• Timer Plugin Example : How to time your code
• Object Factory : A Custom Plugin
• Loading a Custom ColdBox Configuration File
• Logger Plugin: How to trace messages to the debug Panel
• Creating a messagebox style class
• Custom Exception Template
• Caching Objects Example
• Creating Charts With WebCharts3D and ColdBox
• Autowiring using the ColdBox Cache
• Persisting values in the ColdBox Flash RAM

Reference Guides

• Reserved Words & Methods Guide
• Reserved Settings Guide

Generated Documentation

• Config.xml Schema Documentation
• Latest ColdBox API Documents

ColdBox Code Depot & Site Usage

• Goto Code Depot : Contributed and Team plugins, interceptors, apps and more.
• Site Usage : Checkout some of the companies, websites and applications that run ColdBox.

Other Resources

• Articles & Tutorials : A collection of articles and tutorials
• Media & Presentations : A collection of ColdBox media and presentations