Welcome to ColdBox:

A next generation ColdFusion Framework and Development Platform

This website is used for development management of the ColdBox ColdFusion Development Platform. 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@…. The ColdBox Framework is a copyright software by Luis Majano and Ortus Solutions, Corp. (http://www.luismajano.com | http://www.ortussolutions.com)

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Important: Our wiki is moving to a new home: wiki.coldbox.org. Please be patient as we move all of our online documentation to its new home.

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 3.0.0
• What's New with 2.6.3
• 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 3.0.0 applications (2.X.X - 2.6.3)
• 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

Download API Documentation

Version	Download
3.0.0 Beta 3	ColdBoxDocs-3.0.0.Beta3.zip
2.6.4	ColdBoxDocs-2.6.4.zip
2.6.3	ColdBoxDocs-2.6.3.zip
2.6.2	ColdBoxDocs-2.6.2.zip
2.6.1	ColdBoxDocs-2.6.1.zip
2.6.0	ColdBoxDocs-2.6.0.zip

Installation

• Installation Guide
• Upgrading Guide
• ColdBox Refactoring Guide
• Eclipse Plugins Guide
• Installing Syntax Dictionaries
• CFBuilder ColdBox Platform Utilities

Introduction

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

Configuration & Conventions

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

Getting Started

• My First ColdBox Application
• URL Actions Guide
• Request Context Guide
• Event Handlers Guide
• Layouts & Views Guide
• Model Integration Guide
• Request Context Decorator Guide
• Unit Testing Handlers Guide

ColdBox Internal Frameworks & Services

This list of guides concerns the internal frameworks and services that the ColdBox Platform offers a part from MVC applications. They are separate entities that you can leverage without building an MVC/Remote application. However, you can also use them within MVC/Remote applications as ColdBox provides the hooks necessary to talk and use them.

• MockBox: The ColdBox Mocking Framework
• ColdBox Cache: The ColdBox Enterprise Caching Engine
• LogBox: The ColdBox Enterprise Logging Library

Extensions: Plugins, Interceptors and more

• Plugins Guide
  • ColdBox-ColdSpring Integration Guide
  • ColdBox-LightWire Integration Guide
  • Internationalization Guide (i18n)
  • Bean Factory Plugin
  • Feed Reader Plugin
  • Feed Generator Plugin
  • Feed Generator Elements

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

• Transfer ORM Extras
• Reactor ORM Extras
• ColdBox-Ajax Integration Guide

Remote Framework

• ColdBox Proxy Guide

ColdBox Projects Pack

• The Groovy Loader Project
• The Lookup Manager Project

ColdBox Recipes

• Using Helper UDF's and CFC's
• 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

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