> Using Fusebox in conjunction with FLIP we have a complete application design > and development environment from concept-discussion through coding-ongoing > maintenance. > > There is one last very important point here, there have been many previous > methodologies/frameworks applied to ColdFusion development. What is > different in Fusebox is it has become the most widely used of all of them > and that is a very considerable factor for those of us using teams of > developers that can change, grow, shrink etc. >
Mike makes good points, but one of the key distinctions is that of *methodology* vs. *framework*. No question that Fusebox is a usefull framework (though one could argue it's incomplete since it's missing things like security, etc. That's a separate point). and that FLIP is a useful methodology. Methodologies can be religious wars -- XP vs RUP vs FLIP vs Agile vs whatever. I think most people take the useful parts and synthesize their own. Really good design/dev teams do this explicitly (e.g. we'll take A from XP and B, C, and D from FLIP, but also integrate E from RUP and this other cool methodology I like) Frameworks, which have their own religious wars, IMHO are much easier to judge on technical merits than methodologies (which can only be truly measured by results). In the Java world, there's Struts. There's velocity/turbine/torque. There's others, I certainly don't have the definitive list! But in the ASP/CF/PHP world, there's not really any solid frameworks other than Fusebox. And I like the way the new FB is headed -- it is much more of a framework than a set of guidelines (like FB2 basically was). MM's produced some pretty cool tools/services for building more robut frameworks in CF. I think the stuff at benorama is cool, but it's not really a framework (it's sorta like FB2 in that it's guidelines and a few tools). Fusebox has certainly become a defacto standard for CF frameworks, which is a good thing. But just like the Java world has room for several different frameworks, so does the CF world. Looking forward to seeing what's coming down the pike this year :) Regards, John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
