BoxLang AWS, Azure, and Google Secrets Manager Module Released
Every production application carries secrets: database passwords, API tokens, encryption keys. The question is never whether to manage them …
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BoxLang 1.15.0 Released: Blazing Fast Strings, Runtime Portability, and much more
BoxLang 1.15.0 is a high-impact release with two big headlines and a long tail of hardening. The first headline is a massive performance …
BoxLang 1.14.0 : Sets, Ranges, Inner Classes, and a Runtime That Talks Back
BoxLang has never stood still, but 1.14.0 is something different. This is the release where the language stops filling gaps and starts …
BoxLang 1.14.0 : Navigate Anything: JSONPath Comes to BoxLang's DataNavigator
Every application eventually has to deal with deeply nested data. JSON API responses with payloads six levels deep. Configuration files …
BoxLang 1.14.0 : Query Transformers - Take Full Control of Your Query Results
BoxLang 1.14.0 ships a lot of exciting features - Dynamic Sets, Ranges, Inner Classes, JSONPath navigation - but one quietly powerful …
BoxLang 1.14.0 : BoxSet is Here, BoxLang's New First-Class Set Type
BoxLang 1.14.0 ships BoxSet: a native Set type with literal syntax, union/intersection operators, functional pipeline, and deep Java …
BoxLang 1.14.0 : Introducing Inner Classes
BoxLang has always embraced a simple truth: the way you organize code shapes the way you think about problems. For a long time, if you …
BoxLang AI 3.2.0 — Image Generation, Web Search, Fluent Audio, Agent Registry & MCP Observability
BoxLang AI 3.2.0 is here, and it's a landmark release. We're shipping five major features: image generation, web search, a fluent audio …
Foojay Podcast #97: From Scripting Language to AI Powerhouse: How BoxLang Is Redefining JVM Development
BoxLang is a modern dynamic JVM language built for rapid application development. It's 100% Java-interoperable, compiles to JVM bytecode, …
Free Webinar: Making AI useful for Java developers in Real Applications with BoxLang!
AI is everywhere right now, but for many development teams, the biggest question is no longer “What is AI?” it’s “How do we actually use it …
Intro to the BoxLang Formatter
You know the drill. Someone opens a PR and half the review comments are about tabs vs spaces, where braces go, or why that one function has …
Introducing bx-jwt: Enterprise-Grade JSON Web Tokens for BoxLang
JWT authentication is everywhere. But rolling it correctly — with proper algorithm enforcement, key management, clock skew handling, JWE …
Introducing skills.boxlang.io — The Open Agent Skills Ecosystem for BoxLang & the Ortus World
Today we're launching something we've been quietly building for months: skills.boxlang.io — a public, agent-agnostic directory for AI skills …
BoxLang v1.13.0: Compatibility, Concurrency, and Formatter Maturity
BoxLang 1.13.0 is a stability-first release with deep compatibility work and runtime hardening. This build closes 48 issues, with the …
BoxLang AI Series: Complete Guide to Building AI Agents
The world of AI development is moving fast, but building real, production-ready AI agents doesn’t have to be complex. This series walks you …
How to Develop AI Agents Using BoxLang AI: A Practical Guide
AI agents are transforming how we build software. Unlike traditional chatbots that just answer questions, agents can reason about what tools …
BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 7 of 7: MCP — The Protocol That Connects Everything
BoxLang AI 3.0 Series · Part 7 of 7 The AI ecosystem has a tool problem. Every framework has its own way of defining tools, every agent has …
BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 6 of 7: Memory Systems & RAG — Building AI That Remembers
BoxLang AI 3.0 Series · Part 6 of 7 A chatbot with no memory isn't a conversation — it's a series of isolated queries. Every message starts …
BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 5 of 7: One API, 17 Providers — The Provider Architecture Deep Dive
BoxLang AI 3.0 Series · Part 5 of 7 Vendor lock-in is the silent killer of AI projects. You pick OpenAI, build everything against the OpenAI …
BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 4 of 7: Middleware — The Missing Layer in Every AI Framework 🧵
BoxLang AI 3.0 Series · Part 4 of 7 Here's the question every team eventually asks about their AI agents: how do we test these things? …
BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 3 of 7: Multi-Agent Orchestration — Building AI Teams That Work 🌲
BoxLang AI 3.0 Series · Part 3 of 7 A single agent is useful. An orchestra of agents is powerful. The problem with most multi-agent …
BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 2 of 7: Building a Production-Grade AI Tool Ecosystem
BoxLang AI 3.0 Series · Part 2 of 7 Function calling is where most AI frameworks look deceptively simple on the surface and turn into a mess …
BoxLang AI Deep Dive — Part 1 of 7: The Skills Revolution 🎓
This article is part of our 7-part deep dive on building production-ready AI systems with BoxLang. BoxLang AI 3.0 Series · Part 1 of 7 Every …
TestBox 7: Real-Time Feedback, a Browser-Based IDE, and Modern Testing Workflows on the JVM
TestBox 7.x focuses on improving testing workflows for BoxLang and CFML applications. This release introduces improvements to the BoxLang …
Introducing the BoxLang Spring Boot Starter: Dynamic JVM Templating for Spring
Spring Boot developers know the pain of evaluating view technologies. Thymeleaf is great — until you need more expressiveness. FreeMarker is …
BoxLang 1.11.0 Release
We're proud to announce BoxLang 1.11.0, a highly focused performance and stability release that delivers measurable speed improvements …
Introducing the BoxLang IDE Plugin for IntelliJ
The IntelliJ ecosystem is one of the most powerful development environments for JVM developers. Today, we’re excited to introduce the …
BoxLang Homebrew Installer Released
We're excited to announce the official BoxLang Homebrew tap — the easiest way to get BoxLang up and running on macOS (and Linux with …
Announcing Cloud-Native BoxLang for $5/Month
TL;DR: We just released a production-ready starter template that deploys a modern BoxLang application to DigitalOcean App Platform in under …
BoxLang NeoVim Plugin Released
We're excited to announce the release of the BoxLang NeoVim Plugin - a comprehensive syntax highlighting solution designed specifically for …
Join Our Webinar: Build Agents, RAG Pipelines and More
Unlock Enterprise AI on the JVM with BoxLang AI Build Agents, RAG Pipelines & Multi-Model Workflows — One API, Zero Lock-In Modern …
BoxLang 1.10.0: Functional Arrays, Elegant Loops & Distributed Locking
We're excited to announce BoxLang 1.10.0, a feature-packed release that brings powerful functional programming capabilities, elegant loop …
DocBox v5 - Reborn: Modern API Docs for BoxLang & CFML
Welcome to DocBox v5! We didn't just update DocBox. We rebuilt it from the ground up. DocBox v5.0.0 represents a complete architectural …
BoxLang AI v2: Enterprise AI Development Without the Complexity
One Year. 100+ Features. Unlimited Possibilities. Just one year ago, in March 2024, we launched BoxLang AI 1.0. Today, we're thrilled to …
Announcing bx-ldap: Enterprise LDAP for BoxLang
We're excited to announce the release of bx-ldap, a comprehensive LDAP module that brings enterprise-grade directory access to BoxLang! This …
BoxLang v1.8.0 : Revolutionary HTTP Client, SOAP Integration, and Production-Grade Stability
The BoxLang team is excited to announce BoxLang 1.8.0, a massive release that revolutionizes HTTP capabilities, introduces comprehensive …
BoxLang RSS : Full-Featured RSS/Atom Feed Module for BoxLang
We're thrilled to announce the release of bx-rss, a comprehensive RSS and Atom feed module that brings powerful syndication capabilities to …
Unleashing the Power of Data Visualization: Introducing BX-Charts for BoxLang
In the world of modern web applications, data is king—but raw numbers rarely tell the full story. 📈 That's where visualization becomes …
BoxLang Redis Has Landed: Enterprise-Grade Caching, Pub/Sub, and Distributed Locking
We're thrilled to announce the release of the BoxLang Redis Module (bx-redis) - a powerful addition to BoxLang that brings enterprise-grade …
BoxLang v1.6.0 - Performance, AI-Powered Docs, and Advanced Async Monitoring
We're thrilled to announce BoxLang 1.6.0, a release that delivers massive performance improvements, intelligent developer tooling, and …