In doing so I stripped out a lot of concepts and ideas from MG.ie. Not using ColdSpring but is in the plans.

I found this post and I have to say that it pretty much validated all the stuff that I was trying to accomplish and it helped me improve a couple of things as well.

After reading the initial post and the comments I was wondering if there was ever an expanded followup to the original post with a complete example.

I’m looking now at two more frameworks to introduce concepts without disrupting the way developers code at my current job. FW/1 and COW both seem very simplistic and non intrusive which makes them good candidates for what I have in mind.

FW/1 – The Invisible Framework

http://fw1.riaforge.org/

It’s a single CFC. It does not require a mapping (you can put it in the same folder as Application.cfc). It’s pure convention – no XML required. It’s meant to be very, very easy to learn and use.

I think a good developer is simply one that strives to write better software. So whether you are writing OO or procedural is far less important than developing good quality software. But I have found that even a few basic OO ideas can help enormously.

I just noticed a post a few days ago about a "lite" version of ColdBox. I understand that this is the same as standard ColdBox but is just omits all of the more advanced configuration options so it’s much less menacing up front.

http://blog.coldboxframework.com/post.cfm/coldbox-simplemvc-demystifyed

Thanks for the feedback and good luck with your OO learning.

I will follow the links to get a better understanding of the OO concepts as they relate to CF.

I am doing CF development for some time now and I am using cfcs a lot but mostly as a service layer (all functions related to a particular "object" are either in a DAO or gateway cfc, or just in one if the number of functions is small).
Not very OO but keps the code relatively clean. And it works and its quick because all cfcs are in the application scope (done at start time). Now, I am trying to see if there is a better way to structure the apps. For this your work (blog and wiki) comes in very handy.
Not sure if I can refactor the old code (why fix if it’s not broken and on top of that there are more than 500k of lines code), but for new projects I think it’s worth at least looking at new ways of doing things.

I prefer to work on my own lite OO framework than to use a publicly available one. I heard good things about ColdBox and Coldspring so I may change my mind, but I think it’s always better to have a good grasp of underlaying concepts …

Keep up the good work.

Cheers
Mike

No timeframe at the moment for the revised code. I am currently investing my time in the OO CF Learning site and plan to include MVC framework development information there:

http://learn.objectorientedcoldfusion.org

In the meantime you may like to take a look at Framework One for an extremely lightweight MVC framework:

http://www.objectorientedcoldfusion.org/post.cfm/new-mvc-framework-framework-one

Regarding performance, any MVC framework (including the concepts described here) would generally have no performance issues. The performance and scalability issues are typically due to how the model code is architectured.

Thanks again
Mike

A great posting. It would be helpful to understand the concept for me if you can make the code possible to download.

greetz Philipp

MFG Jens