I’ve been slowly, but surely, working on a new version of the cfObjects framework, mainly for my own use since quite a few of my clients’ sites were developed in it. Also, partly because I still enjoy tinkering around with it. Out of curiosity, I visited the Sourceforge site I made for it years ago and was pleasntly surprised to find out that it’s still active. It has a few downloads every months, so I guess other people are still using it. I’m glad.

Of course, its popularity declined drastically once CFMX came out with support for CFCs and with the surge in popularity of other frameworks such as Fusebox, Mach-II and Model-Glue. However, my updates should be of interest not only to current users, but others looking for a different framework to try.

Here’s what I’ve got so far.

  • AjaxCFC integration
  • Multiple object inheritance
  • Full CFC spec conformance
  • Three different implementation styles
  • External object method implementation
  • Updated event model

It’s going to be very flexible, easy to implement and fast to develop with. Hopefully I’ll have it done soon. I just wonder who else it still using it, if anyone, or are people just downloading it out of curiosity.