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I’ve spent time some getting familiar with Springframework for .NET which, among other features, supports inversion of control containers and the dependency injection pattern. While that may sound complicated, once you read about it, you’ll find that it’s really not all that complex. Basically, it’s a great way to make the configuration and dependencies of various services within an application’s model much easier to manage.

ColdSpring is a framework for ColdFusion that provides the same basic functionality. The framework itself has been around in the Java world for some time, before being ported to .NET, and now it’s available for ColdFusion. That to me, that’s evidence that it’s something tried and tested, which is of course a good sign. With so many new frameworks popping up in the coldfusion community these days, ColdSpring sorta slipped by and I never looked into it. I’ve downloaded the documentation(which is very good!) for ColdSpring which includes a very nice example of the pattern implemented inside a Fusebox 4 application. If you’re interested in moving further down the OO road with ColdFusion, you should really check it out!