> <font size=3>There are many things about the Fusebox "standard"
> that I don't like, and don't use. However, the idea of channeling every
> page request through ONE handler file (index.cfm) is a fantastic idea
> which has made my life easier not only in Cold Fusion but in Perl CGI
> programming as well. It makes web development feel more like traditional
> application development. When you develop an application, you write a
> program that is a "main loop" that calls many functions or
> objects. The methods of doing this have matured over the past 20 years.
> Typically in web development you write many pages that are each just a
> single step in a massive state-machine. It is difficult to keep track of
> inter-state communication between page requests. Fusebox brings you back
> to having an "application" that is a main control program that
> calls the necessary functions or objects. Life is good again.<br>
Actually it turns me off for specifically because it does use this old
outmoded monolithic view of the things. I prefer a more encapsulated
object-based way of coding.
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