Well Dave, take heart in the knowlege that I found the intro in the Docs a very simple, lucid explanation of what Coldspring provides. The example of "pre-Coldspring" is exactly what I currently do; composing multiple objects in my main component. I can see the benefit of passing in those objects instead.
On 7/11/06, Dave Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have been reviewing Coldspring recently and to be honest - I don't get it > >:-) even after reading all the necessary blog entries (NOT from the website > >itself I may add, which is piss poor). > > Neil, > > Thanks for the excellent feedback. We'll make those improvements ASAP! > > Seriously, what exactly is "piss-poor" about our website? Are you unable to > find what you are looking for? Are you specifically referring to the docs? > > > > >What if, anything does it give me? What does it do which a good solid design > >doesn't? I cannot find any solid examples which explain it all. > > > > It gives you a way to implement your good solid design without introducing > unneccessary coupling between your components. It doesn't generate your > application model or really force anything upon you, but I would say it > "suggests" that you to write better code because it makes you think of your > CFCs as logical working entities that collaborate with other. Using > ColdSpring will remove all the "create and configure" code from your system > (because collaborating components are injected into one-another "ready to > use"). > > ColdSpring then builds upon this foundation with a framework for > aspect-oriented programming, extensions for remoting, and good integration > with existing MVC front-end frameworks like Model-Glue and Mach-ii. Of > course, as you mentioned, MG2 incorporates ColdSpring, and the inner-workings > of the framework itself are actually wired together using ColdSpring (but > that doesn't really matter to an end-user). > > As mentioned, Sean's presentation is a good starter, you can also pull my > slides from CFUNITED here: > http://www.d-ross.org/index.cfm?objectid=24CC1D9F-BD25-9A13-02D897961EE7EBEF > > > HTH > > Dave Ross > http://www.coldspringframework.org > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246024 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
