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I’ve been a Coldfusion fan for years - ever since it was owned by Allaire. Although I hadn’t done a lot of work with Coldfusion in recent years (apart from the occasional troubleshooting of a customer’s code) I am still impressed with the way Adobe can produce an enterprise-class declarative web-app platform that is both easy to use and install. At the end of the day, that’s what we’re about too – products that are powerful, but so straightforward they literally fly into production. I guess that’s why people like Ruby so much too.

So we’re glad to annouce the release of Coldfusion MX editions of Grid and ComboBox. This adds to our already expansive support for J2EE, PHP, Classic ASP, and .NET (ok Grid is coming). Coldfusion will be supported by all future products too, as long as people are asking for it.

Why is this significant? Well a lot of people use Coldfusion, but there has been a poor showing of Ajax components and frameworks for CF developers. We wanted to make our enterprise-grade components available to those people. Now they are.

What we’ve done (to be specific) is provide a direct conversion of the server-side Nitobi XML API in the form of a basic CFTEMPLATE include. This provides a global set of functions for reading and writing to our XML schema. Since this is new territory for us, we wanted to try a very basic implementation of this API to guage response and collect feedback before producing a Coldfusion module or CFC. We’ll be releasing a CFC (Coldfusion Component) some time in late November or December pending feedback from customers.

If you’re looking for where to download our Coldfusion components go to

• Free trial downloads

Once you download, you’ll want to take a look at our tutorials for Grid and Combobox:

• Grid Coldfusion Tutorials
• ComboBox Coldfusion Tutorials