eepers! I will give you that the houses/building analogy is correct though in "defense" of my perhaps indefensible tone, I honestly can't believe the difficulty I am having trying to pick up the concepts from existing materials. IMHO there seems to be only "house-builders" or "skyscraper architects" -- with a dirth of "construction foremen" able to explain exactly where to put/attach the iron scaffolding.
Rather than continuing the analogy I'm going to look for a(nother) tall building . . . . --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "jgamacheteam345" <jgama...@...> wrote: > > Partly this reads like a troll, but assuming this is genuine, this is how I > read your "question" below (and obviously I could be wrong): > > "Gee, I've come from a background of building houses. I'm trying to learn > this stuff you all use to build tall buildings. What is the advantage of all > that stuff? I never had to do that to build a house and it is pissing me > off..." > > Your right, you don't need to use DTOs/VOs to build a house. If you only > need/want to keep building houses don't use them. If you need/want to build > scalable, distributed systems, then I'd suggest you keep asking questions, > but maybe switch your tone a bit.... > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "mikeashields" <mikeashields@> wrote: > > > > Yes, the nomenclature is disconcerting. I reviewed your link however am > > unfamiliar with java/jsp and thus couldn't necessarily follow. > > > > Nonetheless it seemed to say that mapping flex properties to the database > > properties (returned via jsp/cfusion) offers various advantages -- mostly > > related to strict typing. > > > > Fair enough, but insofar as by using Stored Procedures I (think I) am able > > to push a great deal of the "BizLogic/ControllerLayer" right to the > > database (ie NOT the cfusion or even Flex/ViewLayer), what the hell do I > > care??? > > > > I'm so newbie that I hesitate to presume/assert anything but A.) this VO > > stuff is really boggling/pissing me off and B.) isn't it an imposition to > > make the view/Flex process/organize the returned data? Why not just throw > > results into sharedObjects (aka Flash cookies) on the hard drive? > > > > Maybe I'm missing something . . . > > >
