Mike, Your directory structure is very interesting. Have you used it with
Cairngorm? If so what does that structure?
If not, how do you organize large projects. I am looking at a system with 300
web forms and 150 reports? How would you organize a system like that?
==
> 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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