thanks Nando! I have been looking at ModelGlue in order to get my brain around what it actually is. I do not understand what a "framework" is and am trying to get a grasp on what it is and how I will benefit.
Not sure of the benefits because: 1) My web app is already built consisting of 750 cfm files 2) I am the sole developer I am saying not sure because that is the boat I am in. (which is floating nicely) I just sunk two solid weeks of my life into CFEclipse and am now seeing some benefit. So, as I am going through my web app to put BL into CFCs, should I now be recreating is as a new app in ModelGlue? Will I see a savings of time by the time I am done or will it be like more of a rewrite of my app? ----- Original Message ---- From: Nando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:47:12 PM Subject: Re: [CFCDEV] CFC best practice Jim, I've been thinking about your post in the back of my mind for a few days. I have a suggestion for you to think about. Try ModelGlue out. MG, because of the way it's structured, throws you in the water so to speak with CFC's. You use CFC's to do everything except the display . And it's really not too difficult to learn. What will probably happen is you'll soon be making your first design "mistakes", which are similar to putting your shoes on the wrong feet, or your shirt on backwards. And that's when you begin to learn something valuable, because you then need to figure out how the shirt or the shoes fit properly in your application design. So the nice thing about MG is that it plops you in a world filled with CFC's to begin with. At first, that might be foreign and a little frustrating, but the MG QuickStart guide is really easy to follow and that helps. Try it out with a simple, personal project first. A disclaimer about Flex tho'. MG is for HTML apps with perhaps Flex widgets. It becomes useless if your app is entirely Flex based. MG is also appropriate if you have a Flex component alongside an HTML component and they both share common services. Nando On 2/15/07, Jim Cassata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, As I am moving my single tier CF app (hey, that was how the training was done back then ;) to be multi-tier, I have a question re forms and CFCs. In my app, I have a form.cfm page and the form action is the formaction.cfm. The question I have is should I use the CFC as the form action or use a cfinvoke from the formaction.cfm. I have seen a how-to-do-this in livedocs but not a whether-I-should-do-this. It seems that all things being equal I could do away with quite a few formaction.cfm pages and consolidate into a few CFCs. Your thoughts? Thanks, Jim C You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
