I'm drafting our first set of code standards, and I'm running into a philosophical debate which I'd like to open up to the community.
Some would say our standard should be to place all queries and as much execution logic as possible into CFCs. The advantages of this are: most of your business logic is centralized; if you have to make major changes (like the time we had to copy most of an app's functionality over but change a large percentage of the schema references) it's easy to find most of the relevant code; and, you can often make major changes to an application without pushing more than one or two files to production. Others argue that code only belongs in a CFC if we can expect that code to be reused. So, if a piece of functionality is extremely specific, and therefore not likely to be called elsewhere, then why take the extra step of abstracting to an object. The pet peeve illustrated here is a submit handler page that contains nothing but a call to a CFC, which apparently annoys when business logic is expected on the handler page. Still others would have us put most logic in stored procedures (which produces the sub-debate of whether it's redundant to call a CFC that calls a stored procedure). First, I have to note that we are on Oracle, and personally I don't find it nearly as easy to debug stored procedures in Oracle as it is in SQL Server. Second, I have heard that performance improvement is minimal, and security differences aren't noteworthy provided that you're using cfqueryparam. Third, we would lose database portability (there has been talk of moving to SQL Server, which powers our SharePoint site; of course, there have also been rumblings of moving us to .Net in which case there's no particular advantage either way to storing business logic in the database layer versus the application layer). Then there are a couple of folks pushing for frameworks, but I don't think we're quite ready for that yet. So...inline code if reusability is unlikely? Everything in CFCs? Forget CFCs, go to stored procedures? Some rationale for when to use what? Very interested in hearing your opinions! Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352977 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
