What about LightFront and ORM, like Reactor, Transfer, DataMgr, DataFaucet and ColdFusion 9's Hibernate functionality?
ColdFusion 9's new ORM functionality with Hibernate on the back end promises to revolutionize how CF handles data. This new functionality will work whether you develop using object-oriented design or your apps are procedural-based.
If you are on ColdFusion 8, Open BlueDragon or Railo., you can instead use Reactor, Transfer, DataMgr or DataFaucet.
Remember, LightFront is a front controller-based framework. Because these ORM frameworks and ColdFusion 9 w/Hibernate deals with your model, LightFront doesn't care whether you use ORM or not.
That said, if you are using LightFront, you are strongly encouraged to put your data CFCs in a model structure whether you use an ORM or not. LightFront doesn't care, though... so we won't cover the possibilities in any detail.