This answer is hard to answer because I really feel it's strongly based on your development style. Are you an old CF 5 developer that's just getting into the MX arena (or maybe you're still not there)? - Fusebox is a wonderful framework for these folks. Are you an OOP junkie? - Mach-II might be your answer. Are you a developer who heavily relies on CFCs but doesn't really care for the OOP approach? - model-glue might be your answer.
Now the real cool thing out there in the coldfusion development architecture world are ORMs - the front runners here are Transfer and Reactor. In my experience recently, Transfer is knocking the socks off of Reactor and has been a much more active open source project than Reactor. However, both work extremely well. If you haven't used an ORM yet, you definitely need to try one out :). For those of you not "in the know", ORM stands for "object role modeling" (fancy term, whatever) - the basic idea is that you tell the ORM a few little details about your database tables (what's the table name, what's the PK, what's the relation between your tables) which is typically done in XML. From there, it creates all of your select, insert, update, delete functionality (Commonly called CRUD operations) for you :). Any developer who has done a fair sized project will know that these functions take a good third of your development time - when this gets taken care of for you it is HUGE. So to answer your question, choosing a framework really depends on development style and in many cases choosing multiple "frameworks" may make a winning combination. Please note that the term "frameworks" is being used very loosely here - Fusebox and Model glue basically have the same use; transfer and reactor basically have the same use. A winning combination may be model glue and reactor (and coldspring for the model-glue unity setup) or fusebox and transfer. Get your nose out there, and give these frameworks a try! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276477 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
