At this place developers don't know much about CF since they don't need it - they write templates in SQL without worrying about CF - they call it "black box".
As for application level security, logic flow, and business logic - its all SQL - CF doesn't do any of that. CF is just there to process raw SQL data and create a nice looking page out of it. Just think of it as if almost all work you do was moved from CF onto SQL server. Instead of including templates you just call different stored procedures. A form is an SQL template. Security is provided by SQL security stored procedures etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Munn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 4:12 PM Subject: Re: ColdFusion as presentation engine and nothing more >I disagree that most developers are SQL experts, but that is a separate >discussion. > > As to your specific question about using CF as a presentation engine, that > is a large part of what CF apps do. However, you need additional code in > your application to control logic flow, check application-level security, > and perform other business logic. Pushing all of that stuff to SQL makes > no sense, and would IMHO be beyond the skills of most developers. How many > developers could build a stored proc that modelled the Controller pattern > in SQL? Not many. > >>I am wondering whatever anyone seen/ has opinion about the following >>system: >> >>All information that is presented on a HTML form to end user is build with >>information supplied by SQL Server stored procedure. I mean the data that >>makes the form + information how form should look like - information >>whatever a checkbox should be used or a text field + any special HTML >>formatting. >> >>All that CF does is: parse the result of stored procedure call and build >>HTML form based on data provided by stored proc. The CF components can >>dynamically build any form based on data from SQL server. CF is used as a >>page formatting engine - it formats data provided to it into visually >>pleasant form. >> >>On SQL server there are 1000's of stored procedures which are used to >>display form, validate, update, delete etc. Essentialy the form building >>is >>done on SQL server without even looking at any CF code. CF is a black box >>which rarely changes while 99% of development is in pure T-SQL (All >>developers are SQL experts while most don't know what CF is). >> >>TK > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252100 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
