> If I recall correctly, it's actually discussed directly within the CF > documentation. But basically, it boils down to creating CFC instances to > replace structures. For example, if you wanted to have information about a > person in a structure, you would instead define and use a CFC to represent > that information. Your CFC would have nothing but CFPROPERTY tags, which > would essentially be used to provide named properties that would > correspond > to your structure keys; something like this: > > <cfcomponent> > <cfproperty name="FirstName" type="string" ...> > <cfproperty name="LastName" type="string" ...> > </cfcomponent>
Man, I've re-read that three times now, and I'm just NOT following it. I'm so sorry Dave, but isn't the CFC the webservice? So you'd call for instance, "getPerson()" but that's not a method? > Then, within your web service, instead of returning a structure (or an > array > of structures), you'd return a Person object (or an array of Person > objects). But would an "object" be a cross platform "object" simply because I said it was? Who defines what a "person object" is? Is a "person object" the same in PHP as it is in CF as it is in .Net? Again, I apologize, but there seems to be something here that I'm just missing. This all stems from a web service that I'm trying to access that's just not returning ANYTHING that resembles the results I'm expecting. So I decided to just try and write my own "web service" that could be invoked remotely and return live data. I got that working really easily, but then realized that I was just returning CF "objects" (structs, arrays, query objects) that were fine in CF, but would be worthless to anyone else. That's when I started to realize that maybe there's a problem with the form of the data that this web service was returning, and I started down this road... I just haven't had an opportunity to work with WSDL and web services or XML very much, so I'm just in WAY unfamiliar territory... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273553 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
