I have used all three techniques and think they all have their place. Hal
has a good point about the level of complexity with CFObjects and
SmartObjects but if you are coming from an OO background, this should not be
the case.
I have used CFObjects heavily in my current contract for security
encapsulation and for managing user defined complex views of data and it
works just fantastic. We had actually asked ourselves "why aren't we just
doing our whole site like this?" The simple answer was that alot of "stuff"
has to happen when you call "methods" in a CFObjects environment that is
just absolutely unnecessary for most of what you need to do.
Combining the two techniques is easy but can get out of control very
quickly. At work, we decided that we would not use the CFObject mechanisms
for output, only for complex server side processing. In otherwords, in
combining the two techniques, there is a desire to which we can easily
succumb to create a method for an object that displays data. If you do
that, there quickly becomes no need for dsp_, qry_ or act_ files. We did
not want to do that so we encapsulated only certain complex functionality
into CFObjects then relied on standard fusebox methods to get at that
functionality.
As far as SmartObjects over CFObjects; CFObjects just seems to work better.
Its installation is simpler and worked "out of the box" whereas I had to
spend a little time getting SmartObjects to work correctly.
Mike Craig
CFMethods Pending
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 1:21 AM
To: Fusebox
Subject: app frameworks
Concerning the discussion of Fusebox vs Smart Objects vs cfObjects...
Does anyone here actually have first-hand experience coding in each of these
frameworks???
Not reading the literature but ACTUAL coding experience??
I'm sure we would all love a comparison analysis of each model if you have.
Scott
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