Andrew Binstock: ColdFusion 8 Warms Cockles
September 15, 2007 —
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Developers’ fascination with the presentation layer has generated a profusion of Web development frameworks during the past decade. And, now RIA threatens a similar profusion.
While choice is a wonderful thing, it’s hard to argue that the wide range of Java Web frameworks has been good for the industry. A few frameworks, sure; but many, not so much.
The cost is significant: Many sites are sitting on reams of legacy code simply because they chose what was once the dominant paradigm. Consider, for example, the Apache Struts project’s release this summer of versions of Struts 1.3.x and 2.0.x. Struts 2.0 might be a surprise to some readers who expected that JavaServer Faces (JSF) would be the successor to Struts 1.x. And, in fact, it was touted as such by many people, including Craig McClanahan, the primary author of both Struts and JSF. It turns out the successor is now neither JSF nor Struts 2.0—it’s Shale, which is McClanahan’s new project based on JSF but housed inside the Struts project at Apache. Now it’s its own top-tier Apache project—unassociated with either JSF or Struts. You still following?
The situation reflects a problem I’ve touched on before: The open source software (OSS) community likes to reinvent the wheel...a lot. In some areas, this pullulation of alternatives has few costs—for example, using one of the dozens, perhaps hundreds, of OSS text editors. But in frameworks, the problem is truly costly. At some point, managers start wanting a solution they can depend on long term—one that will advance with their needs, not forsake the original adopters, and have enough of a community that locating developers will not be the equivalent of finding Judge Crater.
Not a lot of OSS products make the cut, but a few commercial ones do. One that is easy to overlook is ColdFusion from Adobe (previously from Macromedia, and originally from Allaire). First released in 1995, the product has known 10 releases, the most recent being ColdFusion 8, which shipped in late July.
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