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cfcPowerTools is now open source

ColdFusion

Tom Shreck just announced that he has decided to open source his cfcPowerTools product. Not too long ago Tom gave a presentation on thi s to our local cfug , and I was really impressed.

 DEMO HERE

Some of the things it offers (lifted from riaforge):

* generate CFCs from database tables
* generate database table from CFC
* batch generate CFCs from multiple database tables
* generate HTML, FLASH, and XML data entry forms
* supports round trip editing
* getter/setter generation

cfcPowerTools is highly scalable. cfcPowerTools is built using templates. You can modify the templates packaged with cfcPowerTools, or generate your own. cfcPowerTools comes with the following templates out of the box:

* Model Controller
* MACH II
* Concrete
* Simple
* Default

cfcPowerTools makes you more productive. cfcPowerTools produces consistant, reliable, predictable, and documented code. Productivity features:

* Component Doc View - cfcPowerTools upsizes ColdFusion's component doc view allowing you to interact with your CFC. From the component doc view, you can add, edit, and delete methods as well as view methods.

* Code Behind - you can toggle between the meta data view for a cffunction and the actual cffunction code.

* ColdFusion Admin - cfcPowerTools utilizes your ColdFusion administrator login to secure access to cfcPowerTools functionality.

* Managed Code - you can designate section(s) of your code as managed code. cfcpowerTools will only regenerate the managed code sections, ignoring the rest of your code.

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Brian Rinaldi said:
 
I noted this on the last open source update and added it to the list. The features look interesting. One note however is that I try to go through the demo and it keeps erroring out on me.
 
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Dave Shuck said:
 
Brian, in my use of it I found that there were a number of exceptions thrown if I didn't do things exactly the right way. When Tom demo'd it to our CFUG, he never seemed to have those issues, so I believe it comes down to some usability things that could maybe be managed better. (I never break *my* applications!) After playing with it a bit I figured out how to use it for generating beans/daos/gateways and it seemed to do that very well, but I agree that it could use a little bit of polishing in that area.
 
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Brian Rinaldi said:
 
Thanks Dave. I obviously have my own selfish reasons to be interested as well...his has several features that my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator does not (one of note in particular is the round trip editing). I would be curious to look at the differences in the features and code that it generates as well as the approach towards generating (for instance I use XSL).
 
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dave said:
 
Im trying out the demo and it errors out ...
 
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wow gold said:
 
 
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