Here you are seeing that there are a multitude of ways to accomplish the same task. Steve mentions that you could call the validate with in the setter method. I have done just that for something simple like stripping out dashes from a phone and/or fax number. I'm not sure that it makes sense for your date comparison need because it would be a toss up between which of the dates you should make the call in. But it would work.
Another way to approach the bean is instead of calling each setter from outside the bean, you pass all the data into the init function. The init function would the have a call to each setter. It could also have a call to the Validate method. There is another code generator that makes beans this way. The good Peter Farrell wrote it and it is on his website. If you want to check it out, verify and copy the data below TrimaID numeric SerialNumber numeric (or maybe it is a string) Version numeric InServiceDate date OutServiceDate date Go to rooibos.maestropublishing.com and paste that into the Bean template box. Enter a name for your bean and path (both are optional) and click the Execute button. You can look at the init function to see what I'm talking about. Peter also has some options that you may be interested in concerning validation. Regarding your concern that another developer wouldn't know about running the Validation method. Two thoughts: maybe they should know to do this. Or maybe they should only be accessing your UpdateTrima function in your TrimaService CFC which does the validation for you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240804 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
