Agreed!
On 3/26/08 11:21 AM, "Alan Livie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds good Peter but when trying to learn OO it just clouds the water > throwing in Transfer, IBO's etc into the mix. I agree its a good way to go > though witha bit more experience under your belt. > > OO on its own can mess your head :-) > > I think Coldspring is fine though for starting off as its fairly > straightforward even for newbies :-) > > Alan > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter > Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 26 March 2008 15:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [CFCDEV] Re: Composing? > > I have a service class for every business object which acts as an API to the > objects. > I personally have a getAssociated() base method in my business objects so I > can just write: > > CalendarList = Event.getAssociated(³Calendars²) and it returns an IBO (an > iterating business object that simulates an array of business objects plus a > decorating iterator without the performance cost of instantiating all of the > beans)containing all of the calendars. > > I describe the details of the relationship in XML that is loaded by the > business object. > > Bear in mind that frameworks like Transfer can do a lot of the heavy lifting > for you rather than having to write code from scratch. > > And yep, it¹s always a good time to get comfortable with ColdSpring (or > LightWire start with ColdSpring)! > > Best Wishes, > Peter > > > On 3/26/08 10:58 AM, "Stephen Judd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm taking my first plunge into a fully OO application and have what I think > is a simple question, though I haven't found the answer through searching: > > I'm developing an events calendar. An event can be on more than one calendar, > so when I display an individual event, I want to also display which calendars > it's on. > > So, when I construct my event object (I know, confusing name) what's the best > way to grab an array of the calendars it occurs on? I'm thinking the array > could be a property of the event, but I'm not sure that my event should be > asking the calendarManager for the array directly. > > Options I've contemplated: > > Have the event object just query the database and populate the array itself. > > Have the event object ask the calendarManager for the array. > > Pass the array into the constructor when creating the event object. > > > Any thoughts? is this where I need to start using and learning ColdSpring? > > Thanks, Steve > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
