In addition to cfflush being unuseable within FB layouts, I'll also mention that FB3 is awfully heavy to be running it as a custom tag. I've done it, and in some circumstances it's doable, but for instance, I had an application which was developed in FB3 with a separate circuit for a roles-based security model. We wanted to use the circuit as a custom tag within other circuits in order to occlude various features which were protected by the security model. Calling the circuit as a custom tag turned out to be far too costly to use that approach. Granted that this is an "advanced" feature of FuseBox, but it's also a potential hazard if you get a developer who comes in and sets something up that way and then you end up wondering why a whole bunch of pages are horrendously slow.
I've used fusebox in the past and I can in the future if a client needs or wants. For my own development I don't prefer it. No offense to Hal and company, personally I find it slow (both development and page loads) and inflexible -- at least, that was my impression of FB3. One FB advocate friend of mine (who shall remain nameless) says it's because I'm too much of a "power user" (his view being that the big advantage of FB is standardization for the average developer). The best example I can give of why I found the framework slow and inflexible is this: my Tapestry CMS includes an add/remove components wizard which is much like the Windows add/remove programs wizard. It's wicked fast and allows add-on components to be installed or removed through a browser interface without modifying or overwriting any of the existing application code, without entering any file path information, and without so much as a single line of programming. It also uses cfflush to display installation progress. As a whole this couldn't have been done in FB3 without so significantly modifying the framework that I would have ended up doing more work than I did starting from scratch. I haven't looked at mach-ii yet. hth Isaac Original Message ----------------------- Mike we use Fusebox heavily and the only con I have enountered (this is FB30 and CF50) is layouts render CFFLUSH unusable. Otherwise we like FB all the way. Kind Regards - Mike Brunt Original Message ----------------------- Hey everyone, Some co-workers have asked me for some pros and cons to Fusebox 4 or Fusebox in general. I polled the Fusebox list awhile back and obviously got some biased results... anyone care to chime in.... I guess im really looking for some cons as I have a decent list of pros. Thanks, Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
