An alternative to the popular Fusebox framework for developing Coldfusion applications is Coldbox. Coldbox is an open source, object-oriented framework that does away with XML dialects. Instead it uses an event-driven CFC handler that responds to all requests for page views, calls to business layers, etc.
Coldbox site:
http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi/wiki/ColdBox
