Steve Nelson and I are going to talk a bit about this in tomorrow's "Conversations", so if you're interested in more, you might want to sign up at www.halhelms.com under "Newsletter". We've known about CFCs for many months. Macromedia was kind enough to include us very early on and I think CFCs have some exiting implications for the work we do.
Will it replace Fusebox? IMHO, absolutely not. CFCs are, as they state, "components". Fusebox is a method of organizing and assembling components, whether those components are CFCs, UDFs, custom tags or included files. Here's one way to think about CFCs and their possible impact on CF: In the Java world, the predominant architecture (the Fusebox equivalent) is called Struts and it's very popular. Now, the argument made about CFCs replacing Fusebox is that since we now have object-like components, we don't need Fusebox. If that were true, why would Java, which, of course, has true "first class" objects that support polymorphism (something much powerful than CFCs), need Struts? Surely, if anyone could, Java could just tell people "use objects". More in the newsletter... -----Original Message----- From: Dave DeVol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ColdFusionMX & Fusebox ?? With the latest by Macromedia and the new CFC's, what do you feel is the future of Fusebox? My understanding with CFC's, is that they are a step towards a standard methodolgy for ColdFusion development, instead of using third party methodolgies like FuseBox. How will this effect FB3 and its future? I'm about to start a large FB3 conversion and am running into resistance with some of the other tech's. Can anyone provide support for my case in light of the new release of CFMX? Or am I just reading to much into the CFC's thing and it will coexist perfectly with FB? Perhaps FB4 will embrace them? Looking for insight... ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
