Personally, I'd write everything in beans if given the opportunity. Not to knock CF or NEthing, but I like the idea of my code being server independent. You can use the same beans on your expensive CFMX box, or on a freeware J2ee, or any other java apps for that matter. It really is one of the best architectures for code reuse. (IMHO)
Thinking of some of the archaic systems we have at our university, we would have saved hundreds of thousands on updating them, had we been able to use the exact same code. I can't say for certain if CF will be around in 25 years, but I feel pretty confident that java will. It's just kind of crazy to think that my code will last that long. As it's usually cycled out due to technology changes, not logic. Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -----Original Message----- From: Joe Eugene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 7:44 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Mr.Corfield: MX and beans I am not sure, why you would instanciate a Java Bean/object to validate a form or populate a database.. CFMX can do this without much effort. To my knowledge.. there are instances where CFMX does NOT perform well or you need more leverage.. if this is the case.. a Java Bean would be ideal.. e.g. 1.Heavy duty Math calcuation in loops. 2.Data manipulation... 3.Some things that were done in custom tags are much faster/clean done in a Bean. 4.Flow control for a big application etc. The above can basically be re-usable components.. where they can be used from either CFMX or JSP. You should be able to instanciate a Java Object/bean in just about any version of CFMX.. but you can only run jsp on CFMX Enterprise...this is what i understand. Joe -------Original Message------- From: Rob Rohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 01/02/03 03:44 PM To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mr.Corfield: MX and beans > > I've been playing with JSP (tomcat) and the bean feature is rad. Creating the accessor and mutator and then simply having the form go straight to the bean - it's awesome I have 2 questions. First, are bean functions available in cfmx (non enterprise or does one have to upgrade - I am a bit confused would pages work like .cfm -> cfmx -> tomcat -> apache/iis -> brower?). Second, did you guys base cfmx/jrun off tomcat or is that just coincidence (directory structure, jikes, etc)? Thanks for any input. Cheers, Rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
