I have used it with Cairngorm, worked fine. The truth of the matter, your
folder structure under the FlexProject doesn't matter to the server and how it
finds components and other server resources (html, js and css files). As long
as it can find the compiled .swf.
So you might have something like w/cairngorm
myProject
/myProject-inf
/components
/flexproject
/bin
/main.swf
/src
/business
/commands
/controllers
/model
/vo
main.mxml
Now your 2nd question. Can you give me more detail? Is this one big flex app,
or is it a number of smaller flex apps, or lot's of CFML app files?
----nimer
----- Original Message ----
From: Wally Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Flex <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 2:49:33 PM
Subject: Re: Application folder structure ( was Re: Need help with Flex APP
generator )
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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