[CFCDev] CFC modeling

[Matt Liotta]

I am currently doing work for a large public company that is having a 
bit of a political rift in terms of application platforms. Basically, 
the people in power like .NET and the people with money like CF since 
my group is using CF and is the only one making money. Anyway, we have 
a large CFC-based application that we are currently fighting to keep in 
CF. As part of the fight, we are trying to remove the myth that CFML is 
a toy language. Unfortunately, we were asked to produce an object model 
document for this particular application. I won't bore you with any 
more details. The problem in a nutshell is that we need CFC modeling 
tool and explaining that one does not exist would really hurt our 
position since object modeling is an important part of enterprise 
software development --at least in their eyes.

Anyway, I spent about a week seeing what I could come up with in terms 
of a tool. The results are promising, but I am now out of time and 
really unsure of direction from this point since I don't normally do 
modeling. I have the following implemented.

1. Adapt a He3 CFC parse tree into an EMF object (with lots of 
limitations)
2. Draw a UML-like diagram based on EMF objects
3. Generate a CFC based on an EMF object

With the above, I was able to write a program to draw a diagram of the 
CFCs used in my application and then print said diagram solving my 
needs. However, it seems like I have solved most of the hard problems 
with modeling CFCs and would like to take things further; possibly with 
help from others.

Thoughts?
-Matt
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