It is a set of tools and methodologies that can allow a developer to build their web applications in a modern and secure way.

The framework gives developers the proper tooling to do their job quickly, securely, modularly, and flexibly.

ColdBox was developed and created by Luis F. Majano in 2006, and it has become the most widely used and maintained MVC framework.

Given its speed and scalability, ColdBox evolved into a performant and simple framework that empowered developers.

In the last few years, it introduced tight integration to Java's `CompletableFuture` API to support Futures and Promises and asynchronous/parallel programming.