Security and Fusebox
Some struggling developers discover Fusebox and expect it to do more than it does. Fusebox is hard to define; it is a set of core files, it is a specification, and it is a methodology. Arguably, Fusebox is many things to many people. One thing that Fusebox does not address, however, is application security.
Many solutions that are incorrectly compared to Fusebox contain a built-in security system. Spectra utilizes an elaborate roles-based system to manage access to content objects. But Spectra’s usefulness proved very slim. Few companies found that their business model fit into what Spectra offered.
Spectra is an example of the limitations of most universal security systems. ColdFusion developers tend to create custom security ...
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