Fusebox (programming) - Overview

Overview

Fusebox provides web application developers with a standardized, structured way of developing their applications using a relatively straightforward and easy to learn set of core files and encouraged conventions. In addition to the framework itself, Fusebox has become closely associated with a Web application development methodology developed by its proponents known as "FLiP" (for Fusebox Lifecycle Process). (Many people refer to Fusebox as a "methodology", but in fact, as stated, it's a development framework. FLiP, however, is a methodology). Many frameworks provide comparable advantages; however, Fusebox (probably on account of both its relatively long history and the sizable and active community that supports it) seems to be the most popular one for ColdFusion. The framework has been ported and used in ASP, JSP, Perl/CGI and PHP as well, though the ColdFusion and PHP versions of Fusebox are the only versions to gain momentum.

It is important to note that Fusebox deals primarily with the effort of wiring together view states (pages) with controller actions (form submits, etc.) and the front-end of the business-logic tier. The framework does not address creating and maintaining business logic such as database interaction or service layers.