Umm, not sure really. Lemme throw out an extreme example. Let's say a "user" (to further the illustration below) has 230 "bookmarks." Let's also assume that there are all sorts of properties associated with a bookmark (e.g. description, date added, title, url, etc.) but all I need to display are the url's on the user page. It just seems that to use a getter for each of the 230 bookmarks for 1 or 2 fields is overkill.
An alternative I suppose is to just have a person.bookmarks property that carries an array (or query) with the information that is populated from the bookmark object? I guess all I'm asking is - as far as OO approaches is concerned - how should one handle a scenario where an object's composition includes many instances of the same object? Thanks for the response on the first. My 200 users are looking MEASLY. Heheh. -Rich -----Original Message----- From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 7:06 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Objects Everywhere! On Saturday, Aug 9, 2003, at 15:33 US/Pacific, Rich Z wrote: > 1. One of the things I'd like to do is populate a user's session > with a user object that persists. Now my concern here is that this > object is being created for each authenticated user. I'm assuming that > all methods effectively get copied ot every user as well (again I'm > assuming). This sounds expensive. If I get to 200, 300, etc. concurrent > logged-in users, is this an inefficient way to do things? macromedia.com uses session scope instances of CFCs and supports 15,000-20,000 concurrent sessions during peak traffic - I wouldn't worry about a few hundred users! > 2. Another sort of related quesiton is the idea of an object having > other objects (i.e. composition). Here's my concern here. Let's say > I've > got a user object that has one to many bookmarks associated with it. If > a user has say 15 bookmarks, this also seems inefficient. Why do you think it's inefficient? Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
