Version 1.0 of coldfusion on wheels was released in late November.
I’ve been watching, and recommending this framework for a while. I recommend everyone taking a really good look at it.
There has been lots of speculation about it not gaining traction. In large organisations, or in large projects, people forget that frameworks can only be replaced when the existing application is redeveloped. In traditional risk-averse environments it can be many years between re-developments. Couple that with some really good frameworks like Coldbox, and Mach II and traction for Wheels could be pretty slow.That isn’t the frameworks fault, its just the way things happen. Sometimes a tipping point has to be reached before community projects explode into life.
All of this can only be aided by the release of the 1.0 release. Beta releases (except by Google) put people off, and hopefully this will mark a step change in peoples attitudes to wheels.
Joel – Smarticles
Hi, i am a novice cf dev and need to learn all this mvc and oop magic. Is cfwheels the right framework for this purpose? The others seem to drown one in xml-configuration.
It’s definitely one of the ones you should look at. The others are ColdBox and FW1. note: I haven’t used FW1 yet; it just fitted with the configuration comment you gave. All three use convention over configuration so you should be fine with any of them.
I like the Rails approach; so Wheels is nice for me. I’m impressed by ColdBox’s documentation, it really does cover everything. FW1 is the most lightweight of the three.
It’s up to you. None of them are bad
I just blogged about some suprising stats about this on the CFWheels site.
http://cfwheels.org/blog/index.cfm/2009/12/9/Wheels-Is-Hanging-with-the-Big-Boys
@Martin, in mid-2009, I decided I wanted to learn Coldfusion MVC and OOP magic!
At first, I picked ColdBox because it had excellent documentation. But, I quickly got lost anyway.
Then, I looked at CFWheels, and it was perfect for me. Easy enough to get going quickly, and with a lot of great help via the Google Group list.
Plus, since Wheels adapts and extends Rails for ColdFusion, I’ve found that I can often get great ideas for solving a CFWheels problem by Googling for the equivalent Rails solution!
I used the Head First Rails book to learn CFWheels, and blogged about it some:
http://www.resultantsys.com/index.php/category/cfwheels
@Martin, in mid-2009, I decided I wanted to learn Coldfusion MVC and OOP magic!
At first, I picked ColdBox because it had excellent documentation. But, I quickly got lost anyway.
Then, I looked at CFWheels, and it was perfect for me. Easy enough to get going quickly, and with a lot of great help via the Google Group list.
Plus, since Wheels adapts and extends Rails for ColdFusion, I’ve found that I can often get great ideas for solving a CFWheels problem by Googling for the equivalent Rails solution!
I used the Head First Rails book to learn CFWheels, and blogged about it some:
http://www.resultantsys.com/index.php/category/cfwheels