That may be. I've only been coding CF for the past three years or so, and I cut my teeth on MX6.1. I've used older versions, but not happily so. I also use CF as more than just my presentation layer. So I suppose that's where I was coming from.
Cheers, Chris Barney Boisvert wrote: > To be fair, if you're using CFML as a view-layer technology, none of > that's needed or even wanted. Your view should basically be > translating a predefined model into whatever end form is needed (HTML, > usually). Custom tags are perfectly sufficient for that tasks, and if > you ask me, the preferable mechanism. > > It's only if you're using CFML for the whole application stack that > those limitations will be hugely crippling. Though it wasn't until > CF6 that we had them in ColdFusion itself, and there are a lot of > applications out there that predate that release. > > This isn't to say that Smith is good or bad (or anything else), just > that a feature-for-feature comparison is only valid if the target use > cases are the same. If Smith is designed as an alternative view layer > for J2EE applications (instead of JSP, Velocity, or whatever), having > those features be omitted is actually a selling point. > > cheers, > barneyb > > On 12/11/06, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I felt the same way. It's not even that it doesn't support CFCs. It doesn't >> allow the CreateObject or cfinvoke methods. >> >> <!----------------//------ >> andy matthews >> web developer >> certified advanced coldfusion programmer >> ICGLink, Inc. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 615.370.1530 x737 >> --------------//---------> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:263575 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
