Editing ColdFusion Markup Language (section)

== History ==
Named Cold Fusion at the outset, the software was created in 1995 by the [[Allaire Corporation]], originally located in [[Minnesota]]. It later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts and then finally to Newton, Massachusetts before being acquired by [[Macromedia]] in 2001. Allaire Cold Fusion thus became Macromedia Cold Fusion. At the release of version 4, the space in the name was removed to become ColdFusion. Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005. {{As of|2023}}, it is still actively developing ColdFusion.

In 1998 Alan Williamson and his Scottish company, "n-ary", began creating a templating engine for Java to simplify common programming tasks.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100917122859/http://alan.blog-city.com/interview_alanwilliamson.htm Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Interview Series – Alan Williamson]. alan.blog-city.com</ref> Williamson was using curly-brace notation instead of tags, but when he saw an example of CFML and how it was solving similar problems (although not in Java) using a tag syntax, he started developing what would eventually become BlueDragon, which was the first Java implementation of the CFML language. (ColdFusion was written in [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[C++]] until version 6.0, the first Java-based version, was released in 2002.) New Atlanta licensed BlueDragon around 2001 and made it available as a commercial product, eventually creating a [[.NET]] implementation of CFML. Open BlueDragon is a fork of the commercial BlueDragon product and was first released in 2008.

The Railo CFML engine began as a student project in 2002 and was first launched as a commercial project in 2005.<ref>[http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/about-railo/ About Railo] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630010231/http://www.getrailo.org/index.cfm/about-railo/ |date=2011-06-30}}. Getrailo.org. Retrieved on 2013-09-17.</ref> Railo announced they were making the engine open source in 2008, and the first open source version was released in 2009.

On June 18, 2009, [[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] announced at the CFUnited conference that it had formed a CFML Advisory Committee<ref>http://corfield.org/entry/CFML_Advisory_Committee {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107042428/http://corfield.org/entry/CFML_Advisory_Committee |date=2009-01-07}} CFML Advisory Committee – An Architect's View. Corfield.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-21.</ref> that would be responsible for guiding and reviewing changes to the CFML language. This effort was disbanded in 2010. The [[Google Group]] CFML Conventional Wisdom was created as a forum for open, public discussions about language and engine features; its use has dwindled since 2011.{{citation needed|date=August 2015}}

In 2012, the OpenCFML Foundation was launched. Its function is to push [[open-source software|open-source]] CFML applications and platforms.

Former Railo lead developer Michael Offner launched [[Lucee]], a fork of [[Railo]], in London on January 29, 2015. Backed by community supporters and members of the Lucee Association, the goal of the project is to provide the functionality of CFML using fewer resources, giving better performance and to move CFML past its roots and into a modern and dynamic Web programming platform.

In 2025, CFML was still in use. Lucee will hold a CFML conference, CFCAMP, on May 22-23, 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spitzer |first=Zac |date=April 1, 2025 |title=CFCAMP 2025, May 22nd & 23rd, Munich, Germany |url=https://dev.lucee.org/t/cfcamp-2025-may-22nd-23rd-munich-germany/14926 |access-date=April 22, 2025}}</ref> The Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2025 is to be held September 21-24, 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 22, 2025 |title=Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2025 |url=https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/ |access-date=April 22, 2025}}</ref>