That makes perfect sense, thanks for the information... really is a
different way of thinking. I heard somewhere that ColdFusion 10 was
going to change  their client side JavaScript (Ext JS) to jQuery. But
I doubt that will happen with these release, which will go along with
what you've said (locking in versions).

Which brings up a question... what open-source libraries does OpenBD
use? I'm guessing the newest version of Apache POI for the spreadsheet
manipulation? Probably another open charting library for <cfchart>? I
came across this the other day: http://www.docx4java.org/trac/docx4j
and it looks like something that OpenBD could take advantage of. Looks
like it is a Java clone of Microsoft's Open XML SDK which can
manipulate the new XML formats of Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files. I
know that Apache POI's Word manipulation is currently dead.

One thing I think it a very nifty and cool feature of OpenBD that will
draw people to it is the Desktop version. Nothing quite compares to it
in the CFML world with how easy it is to work with. I tried using
Railo the other day, and it is just a complete 180 from OpenBD/ACF...
I really had no idea what I was doing.

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