[CFCDev] DAO Use cfdirectory cffile ?

[Joe Ferraro]

I was reading in Core J2EE Patterns that a DAO’s methods be used for returning external persistent data to the client is not just exclusive to RDBMS. This makes sense, but I was wondering if a DAO should be used for accessing things like a directory structure with cfdirectory. Also could it be used with a tag such as cffile considering that maybe you are writing a file in one instance of a create method but you may need to abstract that create method so that the data would be passed into database in another implementation. Does this make any sense? Should I be handling this in a different type of cfc and or is there another pattern I should look into?   What are your thoughts?   Joe Ferraro Web Application Developer Ken Cook Co.