On 11/3/05, Peter J. Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get the feeling that CS is not very well understood in the CF community.
I think that's a bit of an understatement :) > seriously suggest downloading the 13 page reference doc from the site to get > an idea of what CS does and how it does it if you don't know about > "inversion of control" or "dependency injection". Yes, the documentation is excellent! I was a bit of a naysayer at first. Dave approached me about ColdSpring a long time ago and I didn't really take it seriously - I couldn't see the benefit. Then I hit a wall with a Mach II app at work and rewrote it to use Model-Glue and the ChiliBeans factory (supplied with Model-Glue). ChiliBeans was really my first hands on experience with inversion of control and it made the app much, much more maintainable. At that point, I took ColdSpring for a test drive and it all made sense! > With Mach-II + Coldspring - application development is starting to become > more of a silver bullet. Not sure I'd go that far - there are no silver bullets - but certainly an MVC framework (Fusebox, Mach II, Model-Glue) + an IoC/AOP container (ColdSpring) really does lift up your development to make you more effective at producing more maintainable applications. AOP is another poorly understood concept. Hopefully, ColdSpring (and Dave and Chris) will popularize that to some degree. > Just add in CFHibernate if it comes out and you would > great frameworks to do things easily Well, something for ORM would be useful, it's true, but I'm not holding my breath for a scalable production-quality solution in that space ;) -- Sean A Corfield -- http://corfield.org/ Got frameworks? "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' as the subject of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by CFXHosting (www.cfxhosting.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
