> Coldspring is very handy to instantiate and wire your persistent service objects together on application start up.
Right which is why I brought up ColdSpring, it didn't make sense to me to talk about composition of objects then talk about Transfer. Now admittedly I have not found a good reason to use Transfer so maybe I am missing something but I thought that was all about object persistence. Adam Haskell On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Nando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Transfer *and* ColdSpring - if it makes sense to use both. Transfer is > going to be your main workhorse tho' in regards to your business objects. > Coldspring is very handy to instantiate and wire your persistent service > objects together on application start up. > > > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Adam Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
