> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:29 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Pluggable Security system/ app architecture (WAS: Re: Any > Interest in a Completely Free CFML Calendar?) > > This is along the lines of what I was thinking, at least the core of it. > Your notion of creating the model without defining an interface is the > heart of what I was thinking. DAOs would need to be built to connect the > logical model to specific data providers- LDAP, SQL Server, MySQL, etc. A > web services facade would need to be built to provide an API for external > applications.
Actually that's one aspect of the library that I like: all persistence information is maintained separately already in DAO-like "Broker" components. Right now I've only done SQL Server brokers, but to add a different persistence entity you only need to define a new set of brokers (using the provided broker interfaces as a base). You can quite easily add new broker sets for any database, LDAP, XML, flat files or whatever - as long as the brokers return the expected information. Actually you've just pointed out a bug in my documentation - the broker templates available (if any) should be linked at the top of each component - they're not. You can see in the code lines like: <dpDoc type="Broker" name="... > These should define the brokers for the documentation engine... but they're not. I may just have to refresh the cache. In any case if you download the libraries you'll see the brokers and the broker interfaces. > Are these libraries something that could be used as a baseline for > development? That's really up to you. ;^) The whole thing is open source and I will, someday, get the time to document them more fully. I've striven to make as few assumptions as I can with the libraries - the only (potentially) big requirement is that a CF mapping is needed (you can't really do package-level object validation without one). Also, especially for the security system, there are some pieces missing - especially on the admin side (there's no service yet, for example, for "get all users"). But that kind of stuff wouldn't be difficult to add. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:221129 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
