This is excellent news for me. I have to rebuild a site in CF8 in the next few months, and I was thinking about how i was goign to handle shopping cart information.
I think i'll put the shopping cart in a bean thats held in the session scope ( or maybe client scope - haven't decided) but since i can serialise the whole shopping cart in one go (if i take care designing the bean) it wil simplify the persisting and recalling of the cart object. I haven't thought it all through yet, but i'm thinking it will also simplify the storage and recall of invoices, orders, and shipping notes too. The system I inherited and which we're replacing has multiple queries for such things. To recall an order, for example there's a query to get the customer details, then another to get orders entered by that customer, then another to get the SKUs and quantities of the items on the order in question, and, believe it or not, yet another to get the product descriptions and prices. To do all of that in one trip to the database would be a big leap forward. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 12/13/07, Rakshith N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian, > Though a valid concern, just wanted to make it clear that the > deserialized cfc will not go out of sync when a new method is added > while it was serialized. This is because, the methods are never > serialized. It's only the instance level data associated with the cfc > instance, such as the variables in the this scope and in the var scope > of the cfc, that get serialized. The methods are always available in the > cfc template. Hence, the methods are not serialized. > > So, once the cfc instance is back into action when it is deserialized, > the new methods will be available to the cfc from the .cfc template. > > The best part about CFC serialization is it can handle complex circular > references as well. That is, if a cfc has a reference back to the itself > in the this scope, then you can expect the same circular reference to be > maintained once the cfc is deserailized. > > And yes, we are working on the serializing array and query objects > within the cfc scopes. That issue will be fixed soon. > > Thanks, > Rakshith > Adobe ColdFusion Team > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294662 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
