And by gateway object, we're talking about, basically, an abstraction layer on top of the bean and DAO to handle "meta" functions that cannot be handled by the DAO or Bean individually. It's up to you if you want to tackle that layer now or just stick to a CFQUERY at the top of the page and output all the links and deal with Beans on later pages.
-----Original Message----- From: Trevor Holm-Laursen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OOD/Design Patterns and ColdFusion. If your not going to use a gateway Object, I would put a method in your DAO to return a query for the master list. You could then create a bean and populate it though each record or just output the query. I tend to do a bit of both so I guess my apps are more OOish the straight OO. If your going to use a gateway CFC, the gateway holds all the methods the would return more than one row, as these cannot be returned to the caller in a bean. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240818 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
