Janet, We're easing our way into Model-Glue. Early days. For testing, we use CFCUnit and DBUnit, and just getting into Selenium. Not really a framework, but varscoper is worth its weight in gold. I haven't used Reactor or Lightwire.
I don't want to trivialize it, but for me both ColdSpring (the DI bit, not the AOP bit) and Transfer just immediately made sense. I already had a large application where the problems these frameworks are intended to solve were making themselves felt in a big way. With ColdSpring we've never looked back. With Transfer, after my little attempt at getting it to load half the universe into memory failed, a more measured approach has meant smooth sailing. It only took a couple of weeks to start seeing benefits, but a few months to really grasp all the implications. Setup for CS and Transfer is trivial, and I've found the config time is a fraction of the time I would have spent coding the functionality these frameworks take care of automatically. Both ColdSpring and Transfer will potentially do a lot of caching, so the days of just sneaking updated files up to production without stopping anything are for the most part gone. As a 24x7 shop, we now have more 5:30 am stop the world releases than we used to. Jaime Metcher -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of J MacKay Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CFCDEV] newbie - where to handle component composition Its good to hear that Transfer lives up to its "rep" ;) I haven't looked into ColdSpring yet. Truthfully, I've avoided frameworks until now. I didn't want to throw another layer of confusion into the cfc/oo mix ;) but I'm starting to see the light. Have you two used any other frameworks? If so, have you found any differences or strengths in one framework over another? As far as ColdSpring and Transfer, how would you rate the setup/configuration in terms of ease of use? And how long did it take you to get comfortable using a framework? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, please follow the instructions at http://www.cfczone.org/listserv.cfm CFCDev is supported by: Katapult Media, Inc. We are cool code geeks looking for fun projects to rock! www.katapultmedia.com An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
