OpenBD v1.0 is released

After nearly 6 months since we first went public with the open source version of BlueDragon, we are proud to announce the official release of 1.0 of OpenBD.

The last 6 months has not been spent sitting around idly. We've been busy listening and noting reactions to how you want the first ever open source CFML engine to be used and deployed. We've been busy correcting all the issues people have found and adding in a whole raft of new features for you to get your hands dirty with.

Some of the highlights include

• Admin Console: No more editing of the configuration file, every aspect of the engine available through a fully functional administration console
• CFSMTP: Build applications that respond to email coming in on Port25 immediately. No polling
• CFIMAP: Access IMAP servers from your CFML application
• Amazon SimpleDB: Need to utilise Amazon's SimpleDB? Then simply use CFQUERY!
• Amazon S3: Push files up and down to Amazon's popular S3 service with extreme ease
• Memcache: Utilise this popular high performance caching layer deep within your CFML code
• render(): Render full blocks of CFML code on-the-fly; think Evaluate(.) but for tags
• CFCACHECONTENT / CacheXXX(): Full caching layer to let you really control what gets cached
• CFMULTICAST: Lets you send and receive multicast packets
• CFXMLRPC: Quickly consume remote XML-RPC services
• ... plus many more tag enchancements and functions to make life just a little easier

We've added a lot of functionality that integrates deeply into the way CFML developers operate. For example, ever wanted to download an image or web page?

<cfset FileCopy('http://news.bbc.co.uk/', '/tmp/index.html')>

Isn't that much easier than wrestling around with CFHTTP? Incidentally you can access Amazon S3 in exactly the same way.

We believe CFML is one of the most powerful languages available for rapidly building and deploying highly scalable web applications, and we believe the engine should be doing all the hard work for you, while you concentrate on doing what you do best, which is delivering the end-solution and making the customer happy.

Another big area that we are releasing today is the Open BD wiki which will become our repository for all the documentation that has been amounting. This space will be getting filled out as time moves forward, but please get involved if you have any experience with OpenBD.

We've also spent a lot of time working out all our development processes and in addition to the stable releases, there is also a nightly build that is available as both WAR and Jetty ReadyToRun bundles. This makes it easier for people to quickly test cutting edge additions. You will also find on the wiki product roadmap so you can get a hint of where we are hoping to head.

We'd like to thank everyone involved in helping us get to this monumental release. It's been a wonderfully rewarding journey to have undertaken and we are so excited at the future of CFML and the role to which OpenBD has to play in it.

Download OpenBD 1.0   (Release Notes)