Shawn,
I did a review of the RDS Plugins not long after FB was released. While
it is a handy tool to get you 85%-90% of the way, it is limited in that
it doesn't handle on the fly changes to db architecture, requiring you
to re-run the wizard. Some people place their independent logic,
additional queries, etc. in separate CFCs, extending those created by
the wizard. In doing this you keep all of your code whenever you re-run
the wizard. Others don't use the wizards at all, but will use an ORM
framework, like Reactor, that will automatically rebuild objects on the
fly whenever the architecture has changed (within development mode), in
conjunction with ColdSpring's AOP capabilities for generating remote
facade components for the remoting calls.
Steve Cutter Blades
Adobe Certified Professional
Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer
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http://blog.cutterscrossing.com
shawn.gibson wrote:
Hi Guys, I'm using the CF/Flex Wizard at this stage to build my
database queries, and while it does a great job, if you massage it a
bit, it still has a major problem in that it, if you are running
multiple queries, and something goes wrong with one, you have to
redo the entire Wizard, and I've had problems moving locations, with
errors thereafter generated in the .as areas of the generated files.
The best answer seems to be a decent understanding of the CRUD CFC
wizard, but the Adobe documentation, for all it's positive values,
just doesn't have anything on using the CRUD wizard...nothing that
goes from point A to point Z and shows you how to build a simple
CRUD-Wizard-driven app in Flex. As in, create the CRUD CFC, use this
code in your flex app, make a table with these attributes, point
this to that...tag this TextArea or DataGrid with this data
provider, use this method in a button when you click it to fire the
whole thing off...that sort of thing. Of course I mean only at a
simple level for all 4 actions (read, write, edit, delete).
Does anyone know of such an offering anywhere? I've looked as much
as I can, not found anything yet.
If I can find a simple version that works front-to-back, I can learn
the more advanced stuff from there, but trying to learn it all from
scratch is always a very hard thing for me...
Shawn
