Thanks Mark, that actually makes perfect sense. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark A. Kruger - CFG [mailto:mkruger@;cfwebtools.com] > Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 11:26 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: CFC in .NET > > Nick, > > Cold fusion doesn't use constructors in a traditional sense, but the > concept > still applies to the invocation. You are instantiating a component or > object > and you will use it's methods and properties when it's instantiated. You > can > even make the object persistent using application and/or session scopes > (There's a great article on persistence on desdev or CFDJ - I think it was > Ben who wrote it). To put it another way, when you invoke a web service > the > platform you are on uses the WSDL file. The file describes the class, it's > properties, methods and interfaces. > > The platform is able to use the WSDL information to create a "stub" or a > "proxy class" that acts (to the code) as if the class is local. In other > words it acts as any other class - or component - acts for that platform. > It's basically the same concept as an RPC call - without the proprietary > baggage (theoretically <g>). In fact, that is the way web services are > often described: "the ability to make an "RPC-like" calls across platforms > over standard protocols (XML and http)". So if a platform uses > constructors, > a constructor for the class looks similar to any other constructor. The > internals are "masked" from the code by the proxy - giving you the > buzzword > pillars of OO (again... theoretically) "encapsulation and abstraction". > Again, the process is applied differently on different platforms. > > -mk
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