Mach-II first blush

Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0000

I recently have evaluated the Mach-II framework for ColdFusion MX. I started by developing our company holiday party RSVP website. It used a pretty simple form bean, and some standard “manager”, “dao”, and “gateway” objects, as shown in the Mach-II developer guide. My initial thoughts are very favorable:

Cleanly supports writing your code in a re-useable way.
Much more object oriented than fusebox.
Very good framework for MVC development.
Fast - I like how many objects are stored in application scope, so they don’t have to be instantiated every request.

I’ve also started developing some base objects, filters, plug-ins and other useful tools which others may find useful, I’ll post them up here soon.

Mvc on jason grey

Mach-II first blush