Transfer or ColdSpring? Adam H
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Nando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sean Corfield has a presentation on Factories on his site in the right > pod. > > Inheritance generally isn't needed when using ColdFusion, because type > inheritance isn't needed, as it is in Java for instance. If you don't * > really* know what you are doing yet with OO, I wouldn't bother with typing > your CFC's at all. Use type=any or type=component. That gives you the > flexibility to develop your model as you learn. I have a few blog posts on > this at aria-media.com/blog if you haven't read them, in the "oo in cf" > category. > > You also have to keep in mind that inheritance doesn't apply to instances > of an object. You inherit (and can override) methods, but not data. Forgive > me if I'm telling you something you already know. > > The implication here is that nothing special is needed when instantiating > a component that inherits from another component, you just do it. CF takes > care of making the methods available. > > If you need data available between objects, then you need to use > composition instead of inheritance and you might as well make your life easy > and use Transfer, because if you make your life difficult and try and work > out how to do all this on your own, which a very good and very time > consuming thing to do! you'll wind up using Transfer anyway one day. ;-) > > Hope that helps and I haven't misinterpreted your question too much. > > Nando > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Mark Ireland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Can anyone point me to a good tutorial on initialising cfcs of the > > basic kind? > > > > I mean teacher.cfc inherits staff.cfc inherits user.cfc > > > > and subject.cfc inherits course.cfc inherits student.cfc and so on > > > > Thanks > > > > ------------------------------ > > at CarPoint.com.au It's simple! Sell your car for just $30 > > <http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fsecure%2Dau%2Eimrworldwide%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fa%2Fci%5F450304%2Fet%5F2%2Fcg%5F801459%2Fpi%5F1004813%2Fai%5F859641&_t=762955845&_r=tig_OCT07&_m=EXT> > > > > > > > -- > > Nando M. Breiter > The CarbonZero Project > CP 234 > 6934 Bioggio > Switzerland > +41 76 303 4477 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
