I tried to answer this twice but neither of my previous emails went through. I'm trying from another account.
Byron's last example passing the value from the child object to the parent definitely works. I'm not sure what's in your Util class, but the name of it seems to imply using it as a mixin is the avenue I'd take. Jason Durham On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Byron Mann <byronos...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This might work, if I'm understanding. > > component name='baseClass' { > > variables.utilClass = ''; > > public any function init(utilClass utilClass){ > variables.utilClass = arguments.utilClass; > } > > } > > In your derived class you can do this. > > component extends='baseClass'{ > public any function init(utilClass utilClass){ > super.init(argumentCollection=arguments); > } > } > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:360068 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm