I've got big news for everyone on this fine September day! Really big news! I know many of you all have been patiently waiting for the final release of ColdSpring 1.2. Well after a long time of tweaking and testing, the team has delivered! I am proud to announce the public release of ColdSpring 1.2!! But hold on to your hats, that's not the only announcement today! When you head on over to www.coldspringframework.org to download 1.2, you will be pleasantly greeted with a brand new site!!!

Sorry for the delayed post, but our next meeting will be THIS thursday, July 10th at Huntsman Hall at Wharton. This week I will be presenting on the Swiz Framework for Flex development at the Philadelphia CFUG. You can read the details here, but if you around, drop by to get an introduction into my new Swiz Framework!

OMG, I take one week off the blogsphere to catch up on work after cfUnited (I'll get a wrap up soon, but all I have to say is GREAT conference this year...) and Joe goes CRAZY! I'm still reading but he's posting some seriously good stuff in his aptly titled Hiberailooving series. That would be Hibernate+Railo+Groovy. VERY good reading! Covers two major things I came away from cfU with this year, must learn Groovy (reading a great book thanks to Joe) and Railo is very sweet!Thanks Joe!

Another cfO has come and gone, and once again it was a completely incredible event. I tried to see more sessions this time around, since I usually get caught up in conversations in the halls, but I'm not sure I was entirely successful. Of course, for me all the networking is what it's really all about. Friday night I sat with Sean for a while and had a really interesting conversation about his soon to be release Edmund framework.

Elisabeth Pearl Rypka-Hauer ROCKS!

At least I hope so, my fingers are getting tired! This last update is a little on the experimental side, but I have just committed AbstractAutowireTransactionalTests to cvs (CSP-89). Basically this works exactly like AbstractAutowireTests, except that it begins a transaction before each test and rolls it back after the test, unless you call setCommit() somewhere in your test. Like AbstractAutowireTests, you just supply the location of your config file, and setters for any beans you want to test.

Ok, this is something my coworker Cliff Meyers has been trying to get me to write for ages. We use the Spring equivalent of this literally every day. Now, unit testing ColdSpring managed beans is not really all that hard, all you need to do is create a bean factory, load your config file, and call getBean() for anything you want to test. But you know what? That's too much work! Enter AbstractAutowireTests, which you will find in the new coldspring.cfcunit package (yes, I do intend to make more!).

One thing I love about Spring is every once in a while you wish you had some special type of bean only to find that Spring already has it. Collection factory beans are some of these types of objects, which I actually use quite a bit at work. Let's say you have configured a component you use across many of your applications, so you put its configuration in a base file and include it in each application with ColdSpring's <include> tag.

Ok, it's been a while I admit, and I have been pretty damn quiet up in this here blog, however, I have a serious new goal. That goal is a ColdSpring 1.2 release, and it's going to be SOON!. So, to that end, I'm just going to post my activity so you know where we're at. I have committed 2 fixes that should make Mark Mandel and Barney B really happy. CSP-84 has been fixed, which is a problem where setting lazy-init to false does nothing at all. (Ooops it was never implemented, sorry...).

Well, that pretty much sums it up, Flex 3 aka AIR (not too sure of that codename myself!) is now available on Adobe Labs. It sure looks like the RIA space is really heating up now. I know a lot of Flex developers have had harsh criticism on MS Silverlight, and based on current tools alone, I would say rightly so. But the fact of the matter is, MS has arrived at the party.