An Architect's View

Since I'm using Mach-II for several of my clients (sometimes because they are already a Mach-II, sometimes because I've recommended it as the best fit for their needs), I'm getting back into the Mach-II community and getting more involved with the new release - I'm always happy to be on the BER while developing! I wanted to let folks know what a great job Matt and Peter are doing with the framework. Mach-II 1.5 was a very impressive release with a lot of new features that help you manage large-scale application development: modules, includes, subroutines, extended property data type support, SES URL support and bindable property parameters.Mach-II 1.6 may sound like a minor release but it is also adding some significant improvements: broadcast style listeners, Application.cfc enhancements (making your Application.cfc much simpler as well as adding new plugin points for session start/end), some very nice handleException() plugin point enhancements. All those are implemented in the current nightly build. Also coming in the 1.6 release are enhancements to the tracing / debugging machinery and a new cache manager. A few other features are also under consideration. The current timeline has an Alpha of 1.6 available in about three weeks with a Beta in mid-January and the Final release in mid-February. If you want to help, download the BER nightly zip and take it for a spin. You can log any bugs you find on the Mach-II Trac site.