I've found good folder management is key. I have found that this works best for
my Flex, CF, or Flex/CF apps...
/myProject (web root)
/Application.cfc
/index.cfm
/myproject-inf
/components
//sub folders of CFCs
/images
/scripts - all the js and css files my application needs to run.
/flexProject1 -- Flex project files, if there are any.
/bin
/src
/flexProject2 -- Another flex project if I have more then one.
/bin
/src
--- Some other folders that I might use, as needed
/config
/db
/docs
/customtags
/temp - folder to stick uploaded files.
/admin - if the app needs an admin I'll either create a whole new
myProjectAdmin-inf folder structure, or just place the admin in a sub-folder.
A few explanations (in no real order)
-- Because Flex always looks for CFCs under the web root, by creating a
*-inf folder for each project in the webroot it's really easy to know that
Flash and CF can always find my CFC - with NO configuration needed (CFMappings
and such) since everything is relative from the webroot.
The source might look like
<mx:RemoteObject
source="myproject-inf.components.subfolder.CFCName"
Which is the same for a CFObject/CreateObject
#CreateObject("component",
"myproject-inf.components.subfolder.CFCName")#
-- The application is self contained, and easy to move around.
-- Since the "system" files for an app are always at the web root, it
doesn't matter where the user browsable pages of the application end up. For
instance if I decide that I need to rename my /admin folder to /secretadmin
that application files and mappings to resources don't care and the app will
still work without a problem.
-- reduces the number of configuration settings that need to be setup for
an application. I use relative from web-root instead of virtual directories or
CFMappings. With this I've found that the only thing I ever configure now is
datasources in the admin.
-- I can merge multiple applications into the same web root, by droping the
related *-inf folder in the web root. For instance I might have
\myproject-inf
\blogtool-inf
\forumapp-inf
\CFUnit-inf
\frameworkOfYourChoice-inf
and all of the applications can ALWAYS find the files the apps they
need to run, regardless of where I put the *.cfm files for the application. And
none of these applications conflict with each other.
-- I append the "-inf" to the end of the folder for 2 reasons. It helps
make the folder unique enough that it won't match a real folder. And because
this is a convention that j2ee servers started with the WEB-INF folder (used to
store settings for j2ee web apps)
-- if it's a flex app, l'll load the swf in the index.cfm from the
/myproject-inf/flexProject1/bin/ folder. For instance
index.cfm
<object src="/myproject-inf/flexProject1/bin/myproject.swf"...>
this way if I decide to recompile the flex movie I don't need to movie
swf files around just to see the app running in my website.
-- If needed, I can easy block this folder in IIS/Apache, so outside people
can't get in there. However CF and Flex can still load everything they need. To
be honest I haven't found a site that needed this blocked, but it could happen.
Hope this helps,
---nimer
p.s. Any thoughts on this? Or ideas on how to tweak it even more, it's an ever
changing thing.
----- Original Message ----
From: David Panzarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Flex <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 6:49:13 PM
Subject: Need help with Flex APP generator
I have been trying to build a flex admin site within a current CF site. Each
time i do though, my cfc's cannot be found. I dived into the automated code and
put the mappings for each remote object one more folder deep so that they do
work, but there a few that get beans when editing an existing record and i
cannot find those remote objects! So while i can view the master and detail
views, i cannot click on an existing record to edit it because it cannot find
the component that is in the form of a bean.
Any suggestion?
thanks alot,
David
PS - this site rocks!
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