On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:51:39 -0500, in cf-talk you wrote: >That is, you couldn't usefully pry the module out >of the application and use it just anywhere, because it relies on the data >structure of the parent application.
Dave, Agreed. I should state for the record that I'm not of the FB3, drag-and-drop, reuse-the-same-fuses-across-a-dozen-applications school. When I talk about code modularization and reuse in Fusebox, I'm talking specifically about having an app serve as a sort of inter-application "web service" via the custom tag interface. >I don't find this level of linkage >especially useful - either something is dependent on the larger application, >or it's not, from a linkage perspective. Let me give you a concrete example with which I'm intimately familiar: Let's say you have a forum app. One of its tasks is to display a list of recent discussions... let's give that task a name like "showtopics". Showtopics' work is broken down into a query, the creation of a thread structure, and then the layout of the page. Now, if I want to display a list of recent forum discussions on my site's front page, I *could* recreate the query call, the threading code, and wedge it into the code that creates that front page. Or I could simply call my fusebox as a custom tag and say, "Hey, use your pre-existing code to feed me the query results and that structure... but leave off your presentation stuff, 'cause I'll do that myself." Call me crazy, but when I have a chance to separate data from presentation, I take it. :) >I should note that I'm not a fan of Fusebox. I know, and I'm not a fan of *all* of it... the official version, anyway. But I like some of the core ideas a great deal. -- Roger ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
