Copyright Since 2005 ColdBox Platform by Luis Majano and Ortus Solutions, Corp
www.coldbox.org | www.ortussolutions.com

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Because of God's grace, this project exists. If you don't like this, then don't read it, it's not for you.

"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. ." Romans 5:5

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Welcome to ColdBox HMVC

ColdBox Hierarchical MVC is the de-facto enterprise-level HMVC framework for the BoxLang JVM Language and for the ColdFusion (CFML) Language. It's professionally backed, conventions-based, modular, highly extensible, and productive. Getting started with ColdBox is quick and painless. ColdBox takes the pain out of development by giving you a standardized methodology for modern web development with features such as:

• Conventions instead of configuration
• Modern URL routing
• RESTFul APIs
• A hierarchical approach to MVC using ColdBox Modules
• Event-driven programming
• Async and Parallel programming constructs
• Integration & Unit Testing
• Included dependency injection
• Caching engine and API
• Logging engine
• An extensive eco-system
• Much More

LTS Support

For all ColdBox releases, updates are provided for 12 months and security fixes are provided for 2 years after the next major release.

• ColdBox 6.x will receive bug fixes until 2024 and security fixes until 2025.
• ColdBox 7.x will receive bug fixes until 2025 and security fixes until 2026.

Version	Release	Updates	Security Fixes
6.x	2022	2023	2025
7.x	2023	2025	2026
8.x	2025	2026	2027
9.x	2026	2027	2028

License

Apache License, Version 2.0.

The ColdBox Websites, logo and content have a separate license and they are a separate entity.

Versioning

ColdBox is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines as much as possible.

Releases will be numbered with the following format:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

And constructed with the following guidelines:

• Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major (and resets the minor and patch)
• New additions without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor (and resets the patch)
• Bug fixes and misc changes bumps the patch

Important Links

Source Code

• https://github.com/coldbox/coldbox-platform

Bug Tracking/Agile Boards

• https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/COLDBOX
• https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/CACHEBOX
• https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/LOGBOX
• https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/browse/WIREBOX

Documentation

• https://coldbox.ortusbooks.com
• https://cachebox.ortusbooks.com
• https://logbox.ortusbooks.com
• https://wirebox.ortusbooks.com

Official Site

• https://www.coldbox.org
• https://www.ortussolutions.com/products/coldbox

System Requirements

• BoxLang 1+
• Lucee 5+
• Adobe ColdFusion 2018+

Quick Installation

Please go to our documentation for expanded instructions.

CommandBox (Recommended)

We recommend you use CommandBox, our CLI and package manager, to install ColdBox.

Stable Release

box install coldbox

Bleeding Edge Release

box install coldbox@be

Bleeding edge releases are updated automatically when code is committed.

Collaboration

First, read our contributing guidelines, then you will need to download CommandBox so you can install dependencies, run the development server and much more.

Then you need to install some CommandBox modules in order to work with environment variables and engine configuration. Once you fork/clone the repository, startup a CommandBox shell in the root of the project via box and then install all of the project development dependencies:

install

Create an .env file according to the .env.template in the root and spice it up for your local database. Then import the SQL for the database which can be found in /tests/resources/coolblog.sql. You can then go ahead and start an embedded server box server start and start hacking around.

For running our test suites you will need 2 more steps, so please refer to the Readme in the tests folder.

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THE DAILY BREAD

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me (JESUS)" Jn 14:1-12