> Hi All > What tools does everyone use to develop their ColdFusion > Applications? > IDE's, modelling software, testing software, DB's etc. I'm > wondering if > there's anything out there that can make developing CFMX > apps even > easier that some of us haven't discovered yet.
> Thanks Hi Paul, Obviously I'll take any opportunity to hawk my stuff. :) In my case the onTap framework is a labor of love I've been working on for a little over a year now. That may seem like a long time, but I think the benefits are considerable. It covers a lot of the things that Adam's Plum tool covers, though it doesn't include anything like the client IDE. It does include a number of API's for data management (so you can write ad-hoc sql queries that will work across ms sql server, oracle, ms access or mysql without worrying about which database will be targeted), along with a lot of functionality in the "rich-internet applications" department in the form of DOM standard dhtml which works on all major browsers to provide clean and robust tabsets, trees, form validation, etc. Although its most powerful feature is its core architecture and its plugin manager tool which allow 3rd party extensions to be installed into an existing application without editing any of the existing application's code. As a handy tool for making your applictions future-resistant and providing custom branded functionality, this last was the feature that got me started with this framework and often the reason why I continue with so much conviction in its merits. p.s. for anyone who's seen the html library features and found them to be daunting, I just published a new build (a few minutes ago actually) which includes a new mx_html library and an mx/html.cfm custom tag which behaves similar to the CFXML tag to generate html structures in a templated way much more like traditional template-driven CF applications. I haven't had a chance to update the public site with the latest build yet... so little time and all... s. isaac dealey 954.927.5117 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=44477&DE=1 http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=45569&DE=1 http://www.fusiontap.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:185112 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
