One way that you could use a CFC to generate display content whithout greatly mixing your abstraction layers is the use XML. Have a separate package called <myApp>.UI.* and have your methods in the CFC's in this package return xml strings.
Then you only need to open up your stylesheet to your designers and they are no longer editing your code. At the same time, you have also separated your business & presentation logic. Pat -----Original Message----- From: Massimo, Tiziana e Federica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Display in CFCs > I don't think there's anything wrong with doing display in a CFC as long as > that's the whole point of the CFC. Don't mix up database and business logic > code with display code. As long as you stick to that, where you put your > display code (a custom tag or a cfc) makes no difference. I 100% agree > To me it makes > sense to do it in a CFC as opposed to a tag, because then you have self > documenting methods (instead of poorly documented tags). It's not like a CFC automagically document itself, a lazy developer can easily avoid to specify return type and hint attributes and you are left without any documentation. CFC sort of standardize and automate extracting documentation, but there is nothing like true "self documenting" (same for JavaDoc). If you care about documenting your stuff, there would be no differences between CFC and custom tags, if you don't care... You will likely end up with a mess anyway :-)) ---------------------------- Massimo Foti Certified Dreamweaver MX Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer http://www.massimocorner.com/ ---------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
