Submit your ColdBox sites, apps! New section on website for them!
Thanks again!!
Thanks again!!
ColdBox 2.5.2 is now available! This is an important update that will fix several bugs and some new updates. Also, not only is the new version out, but the new Official ColdBox Website. It has a spanking new look and its full of information for all users. There are several announcements on it, as well as the starting point of turning ColdBox into a Professional Open Source Project. So 2008 will sure be an interesting year for ColdBox, so stay tuned as the website gathers momentum and the next versions are already in the works.
As a sidenote, the entire new website is based on the following technologies that ColdBox recommends as a base for all web development projects:
Ernst van der Linden has just finalized his Spry Plugin for ColdBox and it totally rocks. It really simplifies the usage of Spry within any ColdBox application. Not only that, but he has compiled an incredible demo application that you can even download and check out online. The demo shows off some of the techniques, but you can do so much more. You can also find more plugins and interceptors at the ColdBox Code Depot
So please enjoy this great addition.
From the docs:
A viewlet to me is a self sufficient view. A view that can live on its own, its data is pre-fetched and can just be renderer as is. What in the world is this? Well, imagine a portal, in which each section of the portal is self-sufficient, with controls and data. You don't want to call all the handlers for this data for every single piece. Its not efficient, you need to create a separation. Well, a viewlet is such a separation and all it comes down to, its that its a view that calls an event for data preparation. You can simulate this to a page controller.
1. Declare the autowire interceptor
2. Add the autowire metadata property to your components: plugin, event handler or interceptor.
...
3. Add your setters/getters to your object.
That's it, easy as 1-2-3!!
For those of you interested in downloading the daily build, I have let
the cat out of the bag today, in which we will have version 2.5.2 in the next coming weeks.
Why the update if we are on schedule for 2.6? Well, these features
where left out of 2.5 until I was sure they where ok and now they are.
So what does the update include:
1. Two new interception points: afterHandlerCreation,
afterPluginCreation
2. Fixes for using the coldboxproxy with event gateways (Thanks Tom!)
3. API documentation
4. Lightwire updated to include "containsBean" method
5. Due to the popularity of the flash RC persitance via setNextEvent
and setNextRoute, the method has been now exposed to the controller
and all plugins/handlers/interceptors. You can now persist variables
from the collection into the flash RC Ram via the method:
"persistVariables(comma-delimmited list of keys)".
You can now use it
to persist on demand. (Thanks Mark!!)
6. One new interceptor: autowire.cfc
This amazing interceptor will autowire your handlers and plugins with
beans from the ioc plugin (whether coldspring or lightwire). So you
can easily autowire your handlers and plugins with service objects or whatever you want. Man, am I
gonna have to configure mooore stuff. Well, not thanks to conventions
and metadata. All you do is:
- Declare the 'autowire=true' in your cfcomponent declaration.
- Then just create the getter/setters for your services (*They have to
be the same name as the bean names in your configurations)
And that is IT!!! No configuration, just add the "autowire" metadata parameter
to your handlers and plugins, create the getters and setters and you
are ready to roll.
The interceptor declaration would be:
The debugmode property just spits out to the log files any errors or
information stuff.
So there you go, one more surprise coming probably in about a week and
2.5.2 is a go!!
Enjoy the autowire interceptor!!
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Now, I need your input on what exactly to show on the hands on session. Below is my outline of what I would like to show. However, if you have a specific idea on the topics below, please comment.