An Architect's View

Joe Rinehart just announced the release of Model-Glue 1.1 and talked about the forthcoming Model-Glue 2.0 aka "Unity". He also said this is the end of 1.x development. Joe has said that 2.0 should be backward compatible with 1.x (I expect some applications may need a few small tweaks to run on 2.0 - backward compatibility is hard) so this should not cause any panic for existing Model-Glue 1.0 users. In fact, if you're using 1.0, you should feel comfortable downloading 1.1 since it fixes a few bugs and introduces official ColdSpring support. Joe quotes around 10,000 downloads for Model-Glue which is phenomenal! Congratulations Joe! I'm looking forward to Model-Glue 2.0, even as I work on Fusebox 5. Both new releases will provide a cleaner, more maintainable, more powerful set of core files while retaining substantial backward compatibility with the previous releases. This should be seen as a testament to the stability and maturity of those previous releases. In some ways, Fusebox 4.0 was really a "1.0" release since it a new way to write Fusebox applications, using XML and Fusebox 4.1 was therefore "1.1" - and Fusebox 5 will be "2.0". Model-Glue and Fusebox are moving forward: a brand new set of CFC-based core files that bring more expressive power, while building on the shoulders of the "1.x" applications that are out there. It's a good time for frameworks users!