Sure, I had seen the name float randomly about in my travels on the information superhighway (wow, that’s a term I haven’t heard since 1999, and don’t know why it leaked out of my brain just now), but I never took the time to investigate it until about 2 weeks ago.

One word. Dayum!

Color me impressed. I’ve been married to Model-Glue for quite some time. It does everything I need and has just enough features thrown in to make me happy 90% of the time. I’m not one to rest on my laurels, though; it ain’t in my bones. On the surface, ColdBox looks to be a much more robust framework with more development tools built in to help in “enterprisey” application development.

Of course, the one thing that always scares me when I say things like “robust” and “enterprisey application development” is performance. All those extra goodies thrown into ColdFusion application frameworks always mean some performance cost.

I’ve downloaded the code and have yet to start a large project yet, but I will admit to being excited to start trying out all the ColdBox tools and see if it can hold up against the massive amounts of data, objects and users that get thrown into my apps.